Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OpenFGA
Relationship-based access control made fast and easy to use.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenFGA launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The most flexible and granular authorization system yet
2024 · workos.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs - aserto-dev/topaz
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fine-Grained Permissions for AI-Powered Applications
2025 · permit.io · its alternatives →
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Authorizer▲296Open source authentication and authorization solution
2021 · authorizer.dev · its alternatives →
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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/permify
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Permify was born out of our repeated struggles with authorization. Like any other piece of software, authorization starts small but as things grow scaling it becomes a real pain and begins to hinder product development processes. Ad-hoc authorization systems scattered throughout your app’s codebase are hard to manage, reason about, and iterate on as the company grows. Also you will need to have more specific access controls as things grow. Traditional approaches like RBAC is inefficient for defining granular permissions such as resource-specific, hierarchical, or context-aware permissions.…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source business application platform for fast development - openkoda/openkoda
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple and opinionated OpenID Connect server designed for self-hosters - lastlogin-net/obligator
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Serverless Functions For Kubernetes. Contribute to openfaas/faas-netes development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Skip migration and launch MCP with built-in Auth
Nov 2025 · arcade.dev · its alternatives →
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Open Analytics▲253Open Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner. Open source and self-hostable.
Aug 2026 · getopen.so · its alternatives →
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Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data - Release v1.0.0 · authzed/spicedb
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. - ory/ladon
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management. Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over mTLS/gRPC in real time—no polling—and currently support Firefox, Chrome, KDE, dconf, polkit and package management, with more coming. Version 0.8 introduces several new policy types - Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business and FirewallD zones, along with a number of improvements and fixes. I'd love feedback on the architecture, policy model, and whether this is something you'd consider for…
Aug 2026 · getbor.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey Everyone, Almost year ago we launched Permify an open-source authorization service to build fine-grained and scalable user permissions and access control systems over here(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32096610) My co-founders and I had a enterprise solution agency where we worked with a bunch of fortune 500 companies. Each projects we made we have to re-invent the wheel for access control and authorization. Not having a easy to integrate, scalable and a granular system that can fulfill the requirements of these enterprise companies was a pain in the ass for us. As…
2023 · permify.co · its alternatives →
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OpenFGA is now a CNCF Sandbox Project
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Multi-user OpenFaaS Platform. Contribute to openfaas/openfaas-cloud development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Secure and simplify infrastructure access with StrongDM’s Zero Trust PAM platform. Control, audit, and manage access across cloud, databases, servers, and apps from a single, unified solution.
2018 · strongdm.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. Last week, we open-sourced Enrolla (https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla) - feature management for SaaS companies. It makes it easy for developers to control how their product behaves for customers in different pricing tiers. So things like which features are enabled for whom, rate limits and seat limits, but also your customer secrets (with end-to-end encryption), and other configurations. After 15 years of working together at various companies, where we rebuilt the same SaaS foundation layer again and again - we wanted to create something…
2023 · enrolla.io · its alternatives →
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Oso helps companies run agents in production with confidence using monitoring, access controls, and automated least privilege.
2020 · osohq.com · its alternatives →
Also compare
- WorkOS Fine-Grained Authorization alternatives
- Topaz: open-source authorization combining the best of OPA and Zanzibar alternatives
- Permit AI Access Control alternatives
- Authorizer alternatives
- Permify – Open-source authorization service based on Google Zanzibar alternatives
- Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service alternatives
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →