Feature

Fine-Grained Authorization

Attribute, resource, or field-level permission control.

17 providers 83 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 Microsoft Active Directory, Power BI, Amazon Lake Formation, Amazon Data Exchange, Microsoft Entra.

Providers

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Active Directory Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID provide identity and access management for organizations ... 10 APIs 71.4
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Power BI Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decision... 6 APIs 68.0 Amazon Lake Formation AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days, providing centrali... 1 API 66.3 Amazon Data Exchange AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified dat... 1 API 64.4 Microsoft Entra Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) provides identity and access management services includin... 14 APIs 64.0 AWS Lake Formation AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, secure, and manage data lakes. I... 1 API 63.2 Freestyle Freestyle is the infrastructure for code you didn't write — VMs and Git for AI agents. The platform provide... 8 APIs 61.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now Microsoft Entra ID, is Microsoft's cloud-based identity an... 10 APIs 55.1 Google Cloud Storage Object storage service offering high durability, availability, and scalability for storing and accessing da... 2 APIs 54.7 commercetools commercetools is the leading composable, headless, API-first Commerce platform powering large-scale B2C, B2... 8 APIs 52.9 Paychex Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) is a Rochester, New York-based provider of integrated payroll, human resources... 3 APIs 52.8 Apache Ranger Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor, and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop p... 1 API 51.2 Cerbos Cerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization platform that decouples access control fr... 6 APIs 47.8
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Azure Active Directory Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps employees sign in and access reso... 2 APIs 44.7 Casdoor Casdoor is an open-source, AI-first identity and access management (IAM) and MCP gateway authentication ser... 8 APIs 42.2 Apache Superset Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform designed to be visual, intuitive, a... 1 API 38.0 Amazon Athena Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standar... 1 API 37.5

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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