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Engineering, security and product teams that need fine-grained, auditable authorization across applications, gateways, workloads and AI agents.
About Cerbos
Cerbos is an authorization management platform for defining, deploying and evaluating access-control policies across applications and services. Developers can use its policy decision point (PDP) to evaluate authorization requests, while teams author and manage policies for role-, relationship- and attribute-based access control. Cerbos supports local, self-hosted and cloud-based workflows, with policy testing, observability and audit information for reviewing authorization decisions. Cerbos Hub provides a managed environment for organizing and distributing policies, and the open-source Cerbos PDP can be deployed alongside application workloads. The platform is intended for engineering, security and product teams that need consistent, fine-grained authorization for users, services and other identities across distributed systems.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$25/month
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The open-source Cerbos PDP is free forever. Cerbos Hub Proof of Concept is $0/month for up to 100 monthly active principals. Development starts at $25/month and includes the first 100 monthly active principals; a three-month free trial is offered. Production starts at $933/month and includes the first 5,000 monthly active principals. Enterprise plans have custom pricing.
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Cerbos
Founded: 2021
United Kingdom
www.cerbos.dev
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