Implement roles and permissions in your application in minutes

Scalable and extensible authorization service for developer, product and security teams.

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The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.

Multiservice utility provider, trusted by over 700,000 customers.

Creating a world where workplaces work better.

A leading youth culture ecommerce and content platform.

Making the world a better place to work together.

The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.

People analytics platform: Fast track to the insights behind your people data.

Logistics payments without the logistics.

A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.

Build and manage residential investment portfolios.

Securely manage application secrets and configurations.

A discussion-first platform without language issues.

Collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smarter org design decisions.

Cerbos

Decouple authorization management from your core code using the stateless Cerbos solution. Focus on delivering exceptional products, not maintaining the authorization infrastructure.

Fine-grained access control with RBAC, ABAC, and beyond

Context-aware role definitions and attribute-based access control. Implement adaptable, granular security policies that exceed standard role-based access control.

RBAC

ABAC

Streamline access policy management

Implement and update authorization policies in human-readable configuration. Improve visibility, collaboration and security.

Low-code

Permissions aware data filtering

Query for and only fetch the objects a principal has permissions to. Generate a dynamic set of conditions to filter based on access policy.

Query filtering

Stateless and scalable

Stateless decision points that run inside your environment or at the edge (powered by WebAssembly) allow virtually unlimited scale.

Stateless authZ

What our users say about Cerbos

Rob, Principal Engineer
@ Utility Warehouse

"It's weird to say an outside company has our back, but Cerbos does. It's the people. It's their open-source code: it's high quality, you can read it, it does what it says on the tin"

Joe, Software Engineer
@ 9fin

"It's a good feeling being able to say yes to almost any permissioning requirement." "Cerbos is small, contained and easy to implement. It 100% delivers on the promise of abstracting away the complexity of decision making."

David, Senior Software Engineer
@ Salesroom

"We're not worried about scaling because we can easily increase our load on Cerbos. It will also be easy for us to change how we're distributing policies as we reach different points of scale."

Joe, CEO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"We went from one user - every role, to a world where there are many users - many roles. And the product, it relies on Cerbos to actually bring the value that we want to bring to customers. All of our customers are relying on Cerbos, by relying on the product, which is of course relying on Cerbos."

Chuck, Head of Engineering
@ Salesroom

"Instead of thinking of how much time Cerbos has saved us, I think about how much time it didn't cost us. It didn't cost us any time. Cerbos just works. I don't have to think about it. It's as simple as that."

Steve, Staff Engineer
@ NTWRK

"One of our big considerations was speed. We have strict latency tolerances. When it comes to Cerbos - you can call it a hundred times during a request and it doesn't matter. It's incredibly fast."

Engin, Head of Product and Growth & Co-Founder
@ Debite

"If it wasn't for Cerbos, one thing is for sure - we would've launched later than we did. As a result, we would have less customers. And the maintenance part is also very important. Our technical team would be dealing with daily stuff regarding access controls, access logs. Now, we don't have to spend any time on that."

Rounak, Founding Engineer
@ CommandK

"Cerbos policy writing is quite flexible, and deploying as a unit microservice as well. Cerbos "doesn't get in the way" once integrated, that's the best part."

Romina, Tech Lead
@ Wizeline

"It is easy to implement and provides a solution for a problem that is often not properly addressed."

Henry, CTO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"Having the separation of the permissions from the code base just makes the code base more elegant. It makes the permissioning more elegant. It means they're centralized, so they're not tied to specific endpoints. And ultimately it means that different business owners have the ability to actually make updates."

Rasmus, CTO
@ Firtal

"Just discovered your embedded testing framework. This is probably the best balance between hyperfocused functionality and embedded tooling I've ever seen in an open source project. Damn, good work!"

Elevate your developer journey with Cerbos

Low-latency authorization checks

Stateless Cerbos Policy Decision Points (PDP) run in your environment and scale with your application. Deployed as a microservice in your VPC or evaluated at edge/on-device via WebAssembly, decisions are always made locally without requiring any lookups.

Low-latency

Policy Hub Playground

Cerbos Hub's fully-featured collaborative IDE for developing, iterating and testing policy provides instant feedback on changes and integrates into your Git-based workflow.

Try the Hub Playground

Testable authorization with GitOps

Implement a reliable CI/CD workflow with Cerbos' GitOps approach. Test and deploy intricate access control policies with confidence, enhancing your delivery quality. Reduce human errors and enhance security.

GitOps & CI/CD

Auditable authorization

Capture every action tried and every decision made by your application in a consistent audit trail, compatible with your existing log collection or SIEM platform. Conform to ISO27001, SOC2 and HIPAA compliance with versioned and auditable decision chain.

Audit logs

Coordinated rollout and monitoring

Cerbos Hub streamlines policy updates with centralized management and real-time policy deployment. Gain insights into deployed PDP instances, tracking active policies, their versions, and more. Ensure all PDPs are synchronized and up-to-date.

Coordinated rollout

Pre-built integrations and policies

Get up and running in minutes with the Cerbos SDKs or complete starter projects for common frameworks, servers, ORMs and identity providers. Start from templated policies for your vertical to get the basics in place fast, then customize for your business.

Integrations

Decouple authorization logic from your application code

Replace the spaghetti if/else case/switch code with a single function call.

if (await cerbos.isAllowed({ principal: user, resource, action: "edit" })) {
  // allowed
}

if (user.email.includes("@mycompany.com") ||
  (user.company.package === "premium" && user.groups.includes("managers"))
) {
  if(user.region === resource.region) {
    // access allowed
    AuditLog.record("ALLOWED", "edit", user, resource);
  } else {
    // access denied
    AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
  }
} else {
  // access denied
  AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
}

Before

After

Define the RBAC and ABAC rules in standardized policies.

Call Cerbos API from anywhere in your stack - New requirements, new policies and conditions can be introduced without having to make a change to your core application.

if (await cerbos.isAllowed({ principal: user, resource, action: "edit" })) {
  // allowed
}

if (user.email.includes("@mycompany.com") ||
  (user.company.package === "premium" && user.groups.includes("managers"))
) {
  if(user.region === resource.region) {
    // access allowed
    AuditLog.record("ALLOWED", "edit", user, resource);
  } else {
    // access denied
    AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
  }
} else {
  // access denied
  AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
}

Before

After

Cerbos benefits for different roles

Developers

Replace complicated authorization logic with a single call and allow product owners or security teams to manage access without touching code.

Implement authZ once

Product Managers

Define and evolve complex policies without requiring further developer time.

Plug and play collaborative authZ

Security teams

Track and audit access requests, grants and denials without without requiring further developer effort.

Low-code collaborative authZ

Most popular resources

Cerbos Policy Decision Point

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Playground

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Docs

Check out our API reference and guides

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Success stories

Stories of Cerbos in production

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