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Authorization
That Scales

Get authorization that scales with your traffic, development velocity, feature requests, and growth targets.

Built on our experience at

Complexity that spans multiple worlds? Handled.

AuthZed’s SpiceDB was built to handle complex, distributed, and real-world authorization needs.

Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA)

Easily define Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) that adapts to your product teams’ requirements.

Globally Distributed Permissions

Delight your customers with low-latency requests no matter where they are.

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Supercharge your permissions with Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) using SpiceDB Caveats.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Model intuitive Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) using relationships to define roles and permissions.

User-Defined Roles and Permissions

Meet your Enterprise customers' security needs with user-tailored authorization.

Compute-Intensive Queries

Avoid writing complex SQL for recursive and nested permission sets.

What People Say

Extraordinary Customer Experiences
Down-to-Earth Results

“AuthZed's SpiceDB Dedicated is the easy button for Google Zanzibar at scale. The maturity of the open source project made it a clear choice for building fine grained authorization for HackerRank's customers.”
Vinay Aggarwal
Sr. Dir. of Software Engineering, HackerRank
“We needed a long-term partner for our authorization needs. SpiceDB's modern approach to permissions, and the AuthZed team, made it an obvious choice for building out robust authorization in Spot AI's products.”
Rish Gupta
Co-Founder & CPO, Spot AI
“AuthZed removed the friction associated with managing a permissions system by doing all the heavy lifting. Their excellent tooling and comprehensive docs allowed our developers to iterate quickly and confidently.”
Jordan Cuker
Senior Software Engineer, Avise

Production Ready

AuthZed gives you the power to quickly deploy highly available and distributed SpiceDB Permission Systems.

Secure

Rest easy with deployments backed by industry best-practice and SOC2 compliance.

Deploy

You bring the Schema, and we take care of the rest with SLA-backed production environments.

Scale

Get authorization that scales with your traffic, development velocity, feature requests, and growth targets.

Distribute

Deliver real-time performance without compromising zero-trust architectures.

Don’t Sacrifice
Developer Productivity

Build and manage complex fine grained authorization systems without getting stranded.

Maintain developer velocity — keep complex authorization requirements from stifling engineering's momentum.

Avoid infrastructure scaling issues — your SREs are off the hook! AuthZed scales with your business' success.

Harness the power of ReBAC — execute on nested permissions hierarchies without writing marathon scale SQL queries.

Guard against broken access control — enable zero trust architecture with a framework that empowers application teams.

Streamline collaboration — break application authorization silos to delight end-users with cross-product permission checks.

No more pager duty 🎉 — win back time while handling real-time permissions checks for millions of requests per second.

SpiceDB Schema Language

Design tailored access management systems — Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), Fine Grained Authorization (FGA), or a unique configuration that fits your business needs. Build, test, and share your SpiceDB Schema using the AuthZed Playground.