Overview

An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of FusionAuth 🎉 Permify, is an open-source authorization service for building scalable and fine-grained authorization. Exciting news: Permify has been acquired by FusionAuth! 🎉

Permify Blog Post | Official Press Release | FusionAuth Blog Post The project has 6K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

Follow a guide to model your authorization using Permify’s Authorization Language.
See our Playground, build your authorization logic and test it with sample data.
Explore overview of Permify API and learn how to interact with it.
See [our article] to examine Google Zanzibar in a nutshell.
Explore our [SDK samples] for hands-on examples.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, rest api.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

REST API

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