Cerbos

aid: cerbos
name: Cerbos
description: Cerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization platform that decouples access control from
  application code by externalizing fine-grained, context-aware permission decisions into policy-as-code. Authorization is
  expressed in YAML policies supporting RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, and ReBAC, evaluated by a stateless Policy Decision Point (PDP)
  that delivers sub-millisecond decisions at scale. The platform consists of the open-source Cerbos PDP (Apache 2.0), Cerbos
  Hub control plane (PAP), Cerbos Synapse enrichment layer, and PEP SDKs for Go, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, .NET, PHP,
  Python, Ruby, and Rust. The PDP exposes both REST (port 3592) and gRPC (port 3593) interfaces, an Admin API, and standards-
  compliant OpenID AuthZEN endpoints, with query-plan adapters for Prisma and SQLAlchemy.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cerbos.png
tags:
- ABAC
- Access Control
- Authorization
- AuthZEN
- Open Source
- PBAC
- PDP
- Permissions
- Policy as Code
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- Zero Trust
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cerbos/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-25'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-pdp-grpc-api
  name: Cerbos PDP gRPC API
  description: The Cerbos PDP gRPC API exposes the cerbos.svc.v1.CerbosService and related management services on port 3593,
    with server reflection enabled. The gRPC interface is the highest-performance way to embed Cerbos as a sidecar or in-process
    service for service-to-service authorization.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: localhost:3593
  tags:
  - gRPC
  - PDP
  - Protocol Buffers
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Protocol
    url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos/tree/main/api/genpb
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-authzen-api
  name: Cerbos AuthZEN API
  description: Cerbos implements the OpenID AuthZEN authorization API specification, exposing standards-compliant single-evaluation,
    batch-evaluations, and well-known metadata endpoints so that any AuthZEN-conformant client or Policy Enforcement Point
    can integrate with Cerbos as the decision engine.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  tags:
  - AuthZEN
  - OpenID
  - Standards
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#authzen
  - type: Specification
    url: https://openid.net/specs/authorization-api-1_0.html
  - type: Discovery
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#authzen
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-admin-api
  name: Cerbos PDP Admin API
  description: The Cerbos Admin API provides management capabilities such as policy add/get/list, schema management, and audit
    log access on the running PDP. It is intended for administrative use and is gated by HTTP Basic Auth.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/admin_api
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Audit Log
  - Policy Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/admin_api
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-hub-api
  name: Cerbos Hub API
  description: Cerbos Hub is the cloud-hosted Policy Administration Point (PAP) that manages policy authoring, versioning,
    validation, and distribution to Cerbos PDPs across environments. It also provides decision logs, collaborative policy
    editing, and embedded PDP delivery.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos-hub/
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Hub
  - Policy Administration
  - Policy Distribution
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos-hub/
  - type: Console
    url: https://hub.cerbos.cloud/
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-synapse
  name: Cerbos Synapse
  description: Cerbos Synapse is the enrichment and orchestration component that fetches identity, resource, and relationship
    attributes from external systems and translates infrastructure protocols (HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL) into Cerbos authorization
    checks for ReBAC and ABAC scenarios.
  humanURL: https://www.cerbos.dev/products/synapse
  tags:
  - Enrichment
  - ReBAC
  - Synapse
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cerbos.dev/products/synapse
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-admin-audit-api
  name: Cerbos Admin Audit API
  description: Audit and decision log access (Admin API).
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Admin Audit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-admin-audit-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-admin-policies-api
  name: Cerbos Admin Policies API
  description: Policy management (Admin API).
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Admin Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-admin-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-admin-schemas-api
  name: Cerbos Admin Schemas API
  description: JSON schema management (Admin API).
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Admin Schemas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-admin-schemas-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-admin-store-api
  name: Cerbos Admin Store API
  description: Policy store administration (Admin API).
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Admin Store
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-admin-store-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-authzen-api
  name: Cerbos AuthZEN API
  description: OpenID AuthZEN standards-compliant evaluation endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - AuthZEN
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-authzen-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-check-api
  name: Cerbos Check API
  description: Evaluate authorization decisions.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Check
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-check-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-plan-api
  name: Cerbos Plan API
  description: Generate query plans for resource filtering.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Plan
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-plan-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
- aid: cerbos:cerbos-server-api
  name: Cerbos Server API
  description: PDP server metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  baseURL: http://localhost:3592
  tags:
  - Server
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cerbos-server-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index#api-resources
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cerbos-graphql.md
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cerbos-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cerbos-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cerbos-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cerbos.dev
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/quickstart
- type: API
  url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/index
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/swagger.json
- type: Hub
  url: https://hub.cerbos.cloud/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cerbos
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos/issues
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos/releases
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/pricing
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/case-studies
- type: Customers
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/customers
- type: Slack
  url: https://join.slack.com/t/cerbos/shared_invite/zt-1a99bp8d6-fJiaY7lpDRRUe4UB1u35Yw
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/CerbosDev
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerbos
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@cerbos
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/security
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/privacy
- type: Playground
  url: https://play.cerbos.dev
- type: DockerHub
  url: https://hub.docker.com/r/cerbos/cerbos
- name: Features
  type: Features
  data:
  - name: Policy as Code
  - name: YAML Policies
  - name: RBAC
  - name: ABAC
  - name: PBAC
  - name: ReBAC
  - name: Derived Roles
  - name: Sub-Millisecond Decisions
  - name: Stateless PDP
  - name: REST and gRPC APIs
  - name: AuthZEN Standard
  - name: Query Plan Generation
  - name: Audit Logs
  - name: Policy Versioning
  - name: Schema Validation
  - name: Multiple Storage Backends
  - name: Sidecar Deployment
  - name: Embedded PDP
  - name: Apache 2.0 License
- name: UseCases
  type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Multi-Tenant SaaS Authorization
  - name: API Authorization
  - name: AI Agent Access Control
  - name: MCP Server Security
  - name: RAG Access Control
  - name: Non-Human Identity Authorization
  - name: Zero Trust Enforcement
  - name: Compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, PCI DSS)
  - name: Fintech Permissions
  - name: Healthcare Permissions
- name: Integrations
  type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Kong
  - name: Gravitee
  - name: Kubernetes
  - name: Envoy
  - name: Neo4j
  - name: Trino
  - name: Model Context Protocol
  - name: Anthropic
  - name: Chroma
  - name: Pinecone
  - name: Okta
  - name: Microsoft Entra ID
  - name: AWS Cognito
  - name: Keycloak
  - name: Auth0
  - name: Clerk
  - name: Stytch
  - name: WorkOS
  - name: Zitadel
  - name: Prisma
  - name: SQLAlchemy
- name: SDKs
  type: SDKs
  data:
  - name: Go SDK
  - name: Java SDK
  - name: JavaScript / TypeScript SDK
  - name: .NET SDK
  - name: PHP SDK
  - name: Python SDK
  - name: Ruby SDK
  - name: Rust SDK
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.cerbos.dev/ecosystem
- name: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/cerbos/skills
  type: AgentSkills
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.cerbos.dev/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Cerbos
- name: /assets/footer/socials/x.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/github.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/mail.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/youtube.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/linkedin.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/slack.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/npm.svg
- name: /assets/footer/socials/rss.svg
- name: /assets/footer/compliance/soc-2.svg
- name: /assets/footer/compliance/gdpr.svg
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com