Feature

Fine-Grained Authorization

Attribute, resource, or field-level permission control.

17 providers 50 APIs 9 declared variants

Beyond coarse roles, the platform supports scoped tokens, per-resource or per-field permissions, and policy-driven authorization decisions. Matters for multi-tenant apps and regulated data.

17 API providers on the APIs.io network offer fine-grained authorization. The highest-rated are Power BI, Freestyle, Amazon Lake Formation, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Amazon Data Exchange.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Power BIMicrosoft Power BI is a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decision...1 API70.8
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
FreestyleFreestyle is the infrastructure for code you didn't write — VMs and Git for AI agents. The platform provide...8 APIs61.7Amazon Lake FormationAWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days, providing centrali...1 API60.8Microsoft Azure Active DirectoryMicrosoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now Microsoft Entra ID, is Microsoft's cloud-based identity an...1 API57.4Amazon Data ExchangeAWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified dat...1 API55.6Microsoft Active DirectoryMicrosoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID provide identity and access management for organizations ...3 APIs55.0Google Cloud StorageObject storage service offering high durability, availability, and scalability for storing and accessing da...1 API54.9
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Microsoft EntraMicrosoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) provides identity and access management services includin...1 API53.5AWS Lake FormationAWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, secure, and manage data lakes. I...1 API52.3PaychexPaychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) is a Rochester, New York-based provider of integrated payroll, human resources...3 APIs46.9Azure Active DirectoryMicrosoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps employees sign in and access reso...1 API43.7CerbosCerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization platform that decouples access control fr...1 API43.2Apache SupersetApache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform designed to be visual, intuitive, a...21 APIs42.8commercetoolscommercetools is the leading composable, headless, API-first Commerce platform powering large-scale B2C, B2...3 APIs42.4
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Amazon AthenaAmazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standar...1 API38.8Apache RangerApache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor, and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop p...1 API34.6CasdoorCasdoor is an open-source, AI-first identity and access management (IAM) and MCP gateway authentication ser...1 API28.2

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

ABACCompany-Scoped AccessConditional AccessConditional Access AutomationFine-Grained Access ControlFine-grained access control with IAM and Lake FormationOAuth 2.0 with scoped tokensPer-repo and per-VM identity permissions with scoped access tokensRow-Level Security

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