Products
AI Benchmark
Desktop
Mobile
Monthly visits
44.2K
Down9.5%MoMOct 2026
Public revenue
Undisclosed
No public revenue evidence yet
Entry price
$25/mo
Lower than 51% of peersNiche median $29/mo
Creators
Alex Olivier
@alexolivier· 927 followers
Launched
3y ago
2023-11-06 · Est.

Traffic

Monthly visitsData through Oct 2026
Events8 changes

Marketing moves

Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions
X accounts@alexolivier@cerbosdev

  • Launched on Show HN (2 pts)Launch

    Authorization game – matching requests to permission policies — I wanted to get back to coding and play around with a simple way to explain how our product works(permission management platform, ). So I…

    Feb 14, 2025 · 21mo agoLaunch page

  • Launched on Show HN (1 pts)Launch

    UseAsyncFetcher – Implement an asyn fetch function in a Remix app

    Jan 15, 2025 · 22mo agoLaunch page

  • Launched on Show HN (11 pts · 2 comments)Launch

    Cerbos Hub - Authorization Management System — Hello HN! I'm on the DevRel team at Cerbos (), a tool designed to manage who can do what in your software applications. For a couple of ye…

    Nov 6, 2023 · 3y agoLaunch page

Third-party reviews & case dossiers

Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics
selfh.st★ 4,661 Stars · 218 ForksApache-2.0Go
2021-03-21Source

Open source, policy-based authorization solution

Show HN
2023-11-06Source
Post excerpt:
Hello HN! I'm on the DevRel team at Cerbos (https://cerbos.dev/), a tool designed to manage who can do what in your software applications. For a couple of years now, Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is naming authorization a top 10 API security risk: https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/ We are thrilled to announce that
Show HN
2025-02-14Source
Post excerpt:
I wanted to get back to coding and play around with a simple way to explain how our product works(permission management platform, https://cerbos.dev ). So I built the Cerbos Game, where players match incoming requests to permission policies and decide to ALLOW or DENY them; just like our product does for software apps. This game disrupted our engineering tea

Open Source & Agent Ecosystem

GitHub · MCP / Skill
cerbos/cerbosSelf-hostableCommercial Open Source (COSS)
Last commit 2026-11-12
GitHub Stars
★ 4,661
Forks
218
License
Apache-2.0
Primary language
Go
COSS Monetization Path:Community Self-Hosted (Apache-2.0 · Docker) → Managed Cloud (from $25/mo)
View cloud pricing →
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Agent, MCP & Developer Integration

MCP ServerAgent SkillCLI / SDK
Integration docs
Exposed tool capabilities:
Fine-Grained AuthorizationAgent AuthorizationAI agent guardrailsMCP server securityRAG authorizationAI gateway governance
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Traffic sources

Oct 2026

Traffic breakdown

Channels

  • Direct41%
  • Organic Search32%
  • Referrals11%
  • Social6%
  • Other10%

Countries

  • United States24%
  • India8%
  • United Kingdom6%
  • Germany6%
  • Indonesia6%

Search

Domain authority —Domain registered 2021-03-21

KeywordMonthly volume
cerbos1,040
open source diagram apps350
opa, cedar, cerbos130
how put the role in jwt90
cerberos authorization80

Traffic data: Vaneform

Pricing

Open source
Unknown
Proof of Concept
Free
Up to 100 monthly active principals\* · 1 workspace, 2 developers · 2 Playgrounds · 2 simultaneous PDPs · Up to 5 custom tenants · 5 policy builds per week
Development
$25/mo
First 100 monthly active principals\* included · 3 workspaces, 5 developers · Up to 5 Playgrounds · Up to 10 simultaneous PDPs · Up to 20 custom tenants · 100 policy builds per week
Production
$933/mo
First 5000 monthly active principals\* included · Unlimited workspaces & developers · Unlimited Playgrounds · Unlimited simultaneous PDPs · Unlimited custom tenants · Unlimited policy builds per week†
Enterprise
Contact sales
Custom audit log retention

Trial: None · Free tier included · 2 paid tiers ($25–$933) · Enterprise custom tier · Observed 2026-11-09 · Pricing page

Entry price $25/mo, Lower than 51% of peers; “Auth, Payments & Billing Infrastructure” median is $29/mo.View pricing benchmark

Pages & changes

Tracked since 2026-07-31

Key pages

Weekly snapshots

Changes

  1. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Homepage headline (H1) changed to “Authorize every identity. Govern every action.”Positioning

    Fine-grained access control in days not months→Authorize every identity. Govern every action.

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves
  2. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Removed technology: PrismFeatures

    Prism→—

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves
  3. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: RSSFeatures

    —→RSS

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves
  4. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: Radix UIFeatures

    —→Radix UI

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves
  5. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: TurbopackFeatures

    —→Turbopack

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves
  6. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: Vercel AnalyticsFeatures

    —→Vercel Analytics

    At the time: 44.2K visits/mo7 concurrent moves

Questions & evidence

How much does Cerbos cost?
Open source: Unknown; Proof of Concept: Free; Development: $25/mo; Production: $933/mo; Enterprise: Contact sales. Observed 2026-11-09. Check the source for current billing terms, usage limits and taxes.Source
How much website traffic does Cerbos get?
Vaneform estimates 44.2K website visits in 2026-10. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
What is Cerbos and what platforms does it support?
Cerbos is catalogued under Auth, Payments & Billing Infrastructure: Authorize every identity. Govern every action.. Supported platforms: CLI / SDK.
Is Cerbos open source?
Cerbos has a public repository (https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos) under the Apache-2.0 license, recording 4,661 GitHub stars, and supporting self-hosted deployment.Source

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