Reduce CIAM cost. Keep critical capability.
Avoid paying more simply because more customers use your service. Midships Keycloak changes the platform economics and is engineered to preserve existing authentication contracts, so consuming applications can stay unchanged where compatibility is proven.
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More customers should not automatically mean a higher licence bill.
In a per-identity commercial model, identity growth can increase the licensing line even when the underlying platform workload is handled by existing capacity.
More billable identities, higher licence costs.
When price increases with the number of identities, customer growth increases the bill. Discount bands and minimum commitments can change the curve, so your contract matters.
Capacity-led economics, not a charge for every identity.
Run Keycloak in infrastructure you control, with software, support and operations costed on the deployment design. Compute and service costs may rise at capacity thresholds, but are not necessarily charged per identity.
Change the identity platform. Not the systems that depend on it.
We design migrations around a strict compatibility objective: existing consuming services should not need application changes just because the identity platform changes.
How we prove it: discover existing dependencies, reproduce required API and token contracts, run end-to-end regression against real consuming systems, and transition through controlled routing with rollback. Undocumented dependencies or platform differences can require a managed exception, which must be proven before traffic moves.
How the compatibility and platform engineering works ↗Economics first. Compatibility before cutover.
A viable lower-cost option has to preserve the customer experience and the operating safeguards.
Model the total cost
Compare five-year licensing, infrastructure, run costs, growth charges and the one-time migration investment.
Freeze external contracts
Treat existing consuming applications and their API and token contracts as the compatibility baseline.
Prove it before traffic moves
Use functional, integration, resilience and operational evidence to authorise a staged transition and rollback.
Zero change is the objective. Compatibility is the test.
Follow a staged transition designed to preserve consuming services. A deliberately failed compatibility check triggers rollback until the contract is proved.
Start with the existing customer journey.
Traffic remains on the incumbent platform while the team builds and validates the alternative.
Serving all customers
Not receiving customer traffic
Observe the baseline
Dependencies are mapped before customer traffic is moved.
Press Play or Next to begin.
This example deliberately includes a failed compatibility check and rollback.
Questions about Midships Keycloak.
Will Keycloak definitely reduce our CIAM cost?
Not always. The assessment compares licensing, support, infrastructure, operations, migration, compatibility and resilience across five years.
Can we run Keycloak in our own environment?
Yes. The Midships Accelerator targets customer-managed infrastructure, including on-premises environments and customer-owned cloud tenancy, subject to the deployment design.
Explained: Keycloak, production ready. All explainers →
Build, license, or buy it built?
Decide before the contract decides for you.
If your identity platform renews within 24 months, set out renew, renegotiate and migrate side by side while every option is still open.
Discuss Midships Keycloak.
Tell us about your current platform economics, application dependencies and non-negotiable service levels. We will assess a staged Midships Keycloak option.