authzed

AuthZed is the company behind SpiceDB, an open source authorization database, and sells it as managed cloud infrastructure and as a commercially licensed self hosted build. Instead of hand coding permission checks into every service, teams define a permissions schema once and ask SpiceDB whether a given user or agent may act on a given resource. AuthZed positions the platform for AI applications as well as conventional software, since agents and retrieval systems need the same fine grained access rules as people. It is aimed at engineering teams that have outgrown ad hoc role checks. The site covers sharing and link access, team based access control, and multi region permissions systems, with real time performance insights on API usage, correctness tested and performance regression tested releases, and zero downtime upgrades. SpiceDB Enterprise adds restricted API access that scopes the calls each service account may make, full audit logging to a log sink, distributed rate limiting (currently in tech preview) and embargoed security fixes delivered before public disclosure. An official Kubernetes operator handles creating, migrating and updating clusters. Pricing comes in four tiers. Open Source is free and self hosted under the Apache 2.0 license with community support on Discord and GitHub. Cloud uses resource based, usage billed pricing, and the page states a permissions system can be deployed for $2 per hour. Self Hosted is an annual subscription licensed per region and per vCPU, and Dedicated Cloud is priced on reserved vCPU capacity; both are quote based. The open source and commercial products run the same engine, so a team can start on the free edition and move to a paid tier without rewriting its schema.