Security & Privacy / Customer Identity and Access Management Software
FusionAuth is an authentication and user management product for customer-facing applications, providing registration, login, SSO, MFA, identity storage, and authorization.
Buying snapshot
A compact view of who this tool fits, what it costs, and what to confirm before choosing it.
Product scope
Customer identity, authentication, user management, consent and application authorization through FusionAuth software editions, self-hosted or hosted in FusionAuth Cloud.
Product checked: Oct 6, 2026
Pricing checked: Oct 6, 2026
Pricing plans
Pricing checked: Oct 6, 2026
Starter and Essentials start at USD 162 and USD 240 per month respectively at 1,000 MAUs, billed annually, with basic and business hosting included. Enterprise requires a quote and includes high availability hosting. Licenses depend on production MAUs; cloud hosting also depends on running instances. Monthly billing uses the preceding month’s actual MAUs; annual billing uses estimated average MAUs with year-end settlement. Reselling or embedding requires reseller licensing, usually priced per customer. Implementation is the customer’s responsibility; partners can assist.
Official pricing pageVerified plan boundaries that can change the required edition.
Enable WebAuthn or Universal Applications with a free license.
Supporting pricing evidenceRequire advanced MFA, breached password detection, connectors or client credentials.
Supporting pricing evidenceRequire custom OAuth scopes, Lambda HTTP calls, more than one connector or more than 100 machine identities.
Supporting pricing evidenceRequire SCIM, advanced threat detection, tenant management, cross-platform WebAuthn authenticators or more than five connectors or 1,000 machine identities.
Supporting pricing evidenceProduct scope
Material capabilities are separated by their verified relationship to the target product.
Fully air-gapped deployments cannot use this feature fully because it requires network database access.
Connector and machine-entity allowances are stated in planFacts.
Community requires the free Licensed Community entitlement; cross-platform authenticators are separately Enterprise-only.
Scoring method
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Registration, login, single sign-on and OAuth, OIDC and SAML authentication cover common customer access workflows, with TOTP MFA and Starter-and-higher application themes also documented; the supplied facts do not establish measured end-user usability or recovery experience.
TOTP MFA is available and advanced MFA is in Starter and higher editions, while Enterprise adds application MFA policies and threat detection; breached-password detection depends on network access, which limits that feature in a fully air-gapped deployment.
FusionAuth provides identity storage and user management, with Universal Applications in Licensed Community and machine identities in paid editions; SCIM and Tenant Manager are Enterprise features, so buyers should match identity administration needs to the edition.
Consent management and role-based access control are listed capabilities, and APIs can collect data stored in FusionAuth; a complete privacy-data response still requires combining information from other systems, and the supplied facts do not detail broader consent workflows or regulatory coverage.
Self-hosted and Cloud deployment choices, standard authentication protocols and machine identities support different implementation needs, with connector and machine-identity allowances tied to edition; performance across regions or traffic spikes is not established, and the stated SLA applies only to Enterprise HA Cloud, not self-hosting.
Public review signals
PeerSpot: 4/5 (1 reviews); SourceForge: 4.7/5 (22 reviews); TrustRadius: 8/10 (2 reviews and ratings)
Public review signals updated: Oct 8, 2026
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AI assessment
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AI assessment updated: Nov 1, 2026
FusionAuth fits application teams that need customer registration, login, single sign-on and standards-based authentication with a choice of self-hosted or FusionAuth Cloud deployment. Its edition structure supports starting with free self-hosted authentication and adding capabilities such as advanced MFA, SCIM or threat detection in higher editions. Before buying, confirm the required edition, production-MAU and hosting charges, deployment-specific service commitments, and how customer privacy requests will be combined with data held elsewhere.
Research transparency
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FAQ
Self-hosted Community is free and unlimited for core authentication. Licensed Community adds WebAuthn and Universal Applications with a free license. Hosting and paid premium editions incur charges.
License cost depends on production MAUs, and FusionAuth Cloud also charges for running instances. Monthly invoices follow actual MAUs in the preceding month; annual billing uses estimated average MAUs with year-end settlement.
Enterprise provides SCIM, Tenant Manager, threat detection and cross-platform WebAuthn authenticators.
No. An SLA up to 99.99% applies to FusionAuth HA Cloud with an Enterprise license. FusionAuth provides no SLA for self-hosted deployments.
Permanent free Community editions are available. The technical team offers a free proof of concept; confirm its duration and any paid-edition evaluation entitlement.
Its APIs can collect data stored in FusionAuth, but organizations must combine it with data in other systems before delivering a complete response.
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