AuthZed
The Authorization Platform for AI and Modern Applications.
SpiceDB GitHub Stars
6,700+
Underlying Model
Google Zanzibar
Backed By
Y Combinator
About AuthZed
AuthZed is a comprehensive authorization platform designed to secure modern and AI-driven applications. It centralizes permission management, enabling developers to build and iterate on features faster without maintaining complex, in-house authorization logic. The system supports a wide range of use cases including team-based access control (RBAC), sharing via links, customer-managed permissions, and building permission-aware AI applications with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). AuthZed offers various deployment models: a serverless AuthZed Cloud, a single-tenant AuthZed Dedicated, and a Self-Hosted option using SpiceDB Enterprise. At its core is the open-source SpiceDB, ensuring strong consistency guarantees and global-scale performance.
Deployment Options
Authzed Cloud
Serverless, multi-tenant managed authorization service.
Authzed Dedicated
Single-tenant, fully-managed service in a dedicated cloud region.
Self-Hosted
Run SpiceDB Enterprise in your own environment for maximum control.
Open Source
Core authorization engine (SpiceDB) is open-source under Apache-2.0 license.
Core Features
Schema Language
Define authorization models as code for easy versioning and collaboration.
Global Scale & Performance
Ensures low latency and business continuity with a distributed architecture.
Strong Consistency
Protects against providing stale permissions data, a common issue in distributed systems.
Developer Tooling
Provides a Playground for testing, client libraries, and a CLI.