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The self-hosted Permify alternative

Permify is a cloud authorization service that implements fine-grained access control (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC). It provides a policy engine, APIs and SDKs to define, evaluate and manage permissions, enabling runtime authorization checks and audit/querying across applications.

Alternatives to Permify

Cerbos is a scalable, language-agnostic authorization layer for defining and evaluating context-aware access control policies via a dedicated Policy Decision Point (PDP) API.

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What replacing Permify actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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