How to Choose a Teleport Edition

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

Editions

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

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Dual Authorization	✖	✔	✔
Hardware Key Support	✖	✔	✔
Moderated Sessions	✖	✔	✔
Role-Based Access Control	✔	✔	✔
Single Sign-On	GitHub	GitHub, Google Workspace, OIDC, SAML, Teleport	GitHub, Google Workspace, OIDC, SAML, Teleport

Audit logging and session recording

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Enhanced Session Recording	✔	✔	✔
Recording Proxy Mode	✔	✔	✖
Session Recording with Playback	✔	✔	✔
Structured Audit Logs	✔	✔	✔

Compliance

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

Identity

Available as an add-on to Teleport Enterprise

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Access Monitoring & Response	✖	✔	✔
Access Lists & Access Reviews	✖	✔	✔
Device Trust	✖	✔	✔
Endpoint Management: Jamf	✖	✔	✔
JIT Access Requests	Limited	✔	✔
Session & Identity Locks	✖	✔	✔

Infrastructure access

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Agentless Integration with OpenSSH Servers	✔	✔	✔
Application Access	✔	✔	✔
Database Access	✔	✔	✔
Desktop Access	✔	✔	✔
Kubernetes Access	✔	✔	✔
Machine ID	✔	✔	✔
Server Access	✔	✔	✔

Licensing and usage management

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

Operations

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Auth Service and Proxy Service Management	Self-hosted	Self-hosted	Fully managed
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.
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 Teleport's AWS infrastructure with audit logs/sessions optionally in customer AWS accounts. Proxy Service instances are deployed across the world for low-latency access.
Hardware Security Module support for encryption at rest	✖	✔	✖
Proxy Service domain name	Custom	Custom	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.

Support

	Community Edition	Enterprise	Cloud
Support	Community	24x7 support with premium SLAs and account managers	24x7 support with premium SLAs and account managers