How to Choose a Teleport Edition

Teleport supports four editions. In this guide, we will help you determine which edition is most appropriate for your use case.

Editions

Teleport Team

Teleport Team makes it easier for small organizations to get started enabling secure access to their infrastructure. It includes a subset of Teleport Enterprise Cloud features, and teams can switch to Teleport Enterprise Cloud as they scale up.

Read more about Teleport Team.

Teleport Enterprise Cloud

Our team at Teleport manages the Auth and Proxy Services, giving you a running Teleport cluster where you can configure RBAC, set up Single Sign-On connectors, and register resources by deploying additional Teleport services.

Read more about Teleport Enterprise Cloud.

Teleport Enterprise

A self-hosted Teleport deployment for security-conscious organizations. Supports advanced features like Hardware Security Modules and FedRAMP compliance.

Read more about Teleport Enterprise.

Teleport Community Edition

We provide a free, open source distribution of Teleport that enables you to get secure access to databases, Windows desktops, Kubernetes clusters, and more.

Try out Teleport on a Linux server. If you would like to take a look at the source, visit the Teleport GitHub repository.

Comparing editions

Access controls

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Access Requests	Limited	✔	✔	✖
Single Sign-On	GitHub	GitHub, Google Workspace, OIDC, SAML, Teleport	GitHub, Google Workspace, OIDC, SAML, Teleport	GitHub, Teleport
Role-Based Access Control	✔	✔	✔	✔
Moderated Sessions	✖	✔	✔	✖
Device Trust	✖	✔	✔	✖
Dual Authorization	✖	✔	✔	✖
Hardware Key Support	✖	✔	✔	✖

Infrastructure access

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Application Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Server Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Database Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Desktop Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Kubernetes Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
Machine ID	✔	✔	✔	✔
Agentless Integration with OpenSSH Servers	✔	✔	✔	✔

Audit logging and session recording

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Structured Audit Logs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Session Recording with Playback	✔	✔	✔	✔
Recording Proxy Mode	✔	✔	✖	✖
Enhanced Session Recording	✔	✔	✔	✔

Compliance

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
FedRAMP Control	✖	✔	✖	✖
PCI DSS Features	Limited	✔	✔	Limited
SOC 2 Features	Limited	✔	✔	Limited
FIPS-compliant binaries available for FedRAMP High	✖	✔	✖	✖
IP-Based Restrictions	✖	✔	✔	✖

Operations

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Auth and Proxy Service Management	Self-hosted	Self-hosted	Fully managed	Fully managed
Proxy Service domain name	Custom	Custom	A subdomain of teleport.sh	A subdomain of teleport.sh
Version support	All supported releases available to install and download.	All supported releases available to install and download.	Deploys last stable release with 2-3 week lag for stability.	Deploys last stable release with 2-3 week lag for stability.
Backend support	Any S3-compatible storage for session records, many managed backends for custom audit log storage.	Any S3-compatible storage for session records, many managed backends for custom audit log storage	All data is stored in DynamoDB and S3 with server-side encryption.	All data is stored in DynamoDB and S3 with server-side encryption.
Data storage location	Can store data anywhere in the world, on most managed cloud backends	Can store data anywhere in the world, on most managed cloud backends	Data is stored in us-west-2, with Proxy Service instances deployed across the world for low-latency access.	Data is stored in us-west-2, with Proxy Service instances deployed across the world for low-latency access.
Hardware Security Module support for encryption at rest	✖	✔	✖	✖

Support

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Support	Community	24x7 support with premium SLAs and account managers	24x7 support with premium SLAs and account managers	Community

Licensing and usage management

	Open Source	Enterprise	Cloud	Team
Annual or multi-year contracts, volume discounts	✖	✔	✔	✖
License	Apache 2	Commercial	Commercial	Commercial
Anonymized Usage Tracking	Opt-in	✔	✔	✔