Audience
Engineering, security, identity and product teams at SaaS companies and regulated enterprises that need fine-grained, auditable authorization across applications, gateways, workloads and AI agents
About Cerbos
Cerbos is an authorization management platform. Teams use it to authorize every identity, govern every action and prove every decision, with fine-grained, contextual and continuous authorization across applications, gateways, workloads and AI agents.
Access rules live in readable policies instead of application code, so security and product teams can change who can access what without waiting for an engineering release. Cerbos supports RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC and PBAC, reads roles and attributes from your identity provider and databases when each check runs, and checks every AI agent action against the same rules as people.
Every access check is logged with the policy that applied, ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA audits. Cerbos runs hosted, self-hosted or air-gapped. Utility Warehouse, 9fin, 4G Capital, VW, Human Managed, and thousands of other organizations use Cerbos in production.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$25/month
Pricing Details:
Cerbos pricing is public. Proof of Concept is free for up to 100 monthly active principals, meaning the users, services and AI agents Cerbos checks access for in a month. Development starts at $25/month with the first 100 monthly active principals included and a 3 month free trial. Production starts at $933/month with the first 5,000 monthly active principals included. Enterprise plans are priced on request and add SSO, a self-hosted deployment of the full platform, an enterprise support SLA, phone support and quarterly training.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
Company Information
Cerbos
Founded: 2021
United Kingdom
www.cerbos.dev/
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Cerbos Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Cerbos work with?
Cerbos works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business and Enterprise.
Q: What languages does Cerbos support in their product?
Cerbos supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Cerbos offer?
Cerbos offers support via phone support, 24/7 live support, and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Cerbos integrate with?
Cerbos integrates with: Amazon Cognito, Apache Kafka, Apigee, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Claude Code, Docker, Envoy, GitHub Actions, Istio, Keycloak, Kong Gateway, Kubernetes, LangChain, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Okta, Ping Identity, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Trino.
Q: Does Cerbos have an API?
Yes, Cerbos has an API.
Q: What type of training does Cerbos provide?
Cerbos provides training in the form of documentation, live online, webinars, in person, and videos.
Q: Does Cerbos offer a free trial?
Yes, Cerbos offers a free trial.
Q: How much does Cerbos cost?
Pricing for Cerbos starts at $25/month.
Q: What pricing for support is available for Cerbos?
Cerbos offers support included with purchase and additional fee / premium available.
Q: What pricing for training is available for Cerbos?
Cerbos offers training included with purchase.
