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Frontegg is a B2B user-management platform known for its polished self-serve admin and login box. Qeet ID covers the same enterprise auth surface as MIT-licensed software you can self-host, with published per-MAU pricing instead of opaque usage-based billing.
Qeet ID
- License
- MIT (open source)
- Self-host
- First-class
- Pricing
- Published per-MAU
- Entry price
- $25 / mo
- Stack
- Go + Postgres
Frontegg
- License
- Proprietary SaaS
- Self-host
- Enterprise only
- Pricing
- Opaque PAYG
- Free tier
- 7,500 MAU
- Focus
- B2B admin box
The same B2B toolkit — with pricing you can actually see.
Frontegg's self-serve admin box is polished, but its pricing is opaque PAYG and self-hosting is enterprise-only. Qeet ID is MIT-licensed, self-hostable, and priced in public at $0.02/MAU.
Feature-by-feature
Verified against Qeet ID's implemented status and Frontegg's public docs. Where we're still building, we say so.
- Available
- Partial / gated
- Not offered
| Capability | Qeet ID | Frontegg |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | ||
Email + password | Yes | Yes |
Passkeys / WebAuthn | Yes | Yes |
MFA (TOTP, SMS, email, recovery codes) | Yes | Yes |
| Federation | ||
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC (you are the IdP) | Yes | Yes |
SAML 2.0 SP + IdP | Yes | Yes |
SCIM 2.0 provisioning | Yes | Yes |
| Authorization | ||
RBAC + single-call /check API | Yes | Yes |
ABAC policy engine Qeet ID ships a per-tenant ABAC policy engine; Frontegg leans on its entitlements engine for attribute-style gating. | Yes | Partial |
Explainable authz (grant-path “why?” trace) Qeet ID returns the role/group grant path (or denial reason) on every check. | Yes | No |
| Deployment | ||
Open-source code (MIT) | Yes | No |
Self-host (single binary + Postgres) Frontegg self-hosting is offered only in enterprise contracts; treat it as effectively managed-only. Qeet ID self-host is first-class on every plan. | Yes | Enterprise deal only |
Air-gapped / fully offline | Yes | No |
| Pricing | ||
Free tier | 25,000 MAU | 7,500 MAU + 5 connections |
Published per-MAU rate Frontegg uses usage-based PAYG pricing with no publicly-listed per-unit rate; Qeet ID publishes a flat linear rate. | $0.02 / MAU | Not published |
Transparent pricing (no “call for quote” to start) | Yes | No |
| Security & audit | ||
Tamper-evident hash-chained audit log + /verify Frontegg keeps audit logs, but they are not cryptographically tamper-evident; Qeet ID SHA-256 chains every row and proves it via an integrity endpoint. | Yes | Partial |
Refresh-token theft detection | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance | ||
SOC 2 Type II Independent audit + external pen-test are scheduled before Qeet ID GA. | Roadmap (pre-GA) | Yes |
GDPR erasure / data export | Yes | Yes |
Self-hosted = your compliance boundary | Yes | No |
| Developer experience | ||
Self-serve B2B admin / login box The self-serve admin and login box is Frontegg's signature strength; Qeet ID ships a hosted login app and admin console but a lighter self-service portal. | Partial | Yes |
First-party SDKs | React · Node · Go | Multiple languages |
Prebuilt React components Frontegg ships polished drop-in React components; Qeet ID's React component kit is in progress. | Partial | Yes |
Comparison is based on publicly-available product information at the time of writing. We do our best to be accurate — if anything above is wrong, please let us know and we'll correct it.
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