OpenFGA in production
OpenFGA is deployed in production at fintechs, observability platforms, AI products, developer-tool companies, and API platforms. The case studies below are based on public CNCF TOC adopter interviews and OpenFGA community meeting presentations.
Featured case studies
| Adopter | Industry | In production since | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read AI | AI meeting intelligence | April 2023 | 5,200 RPS peak, 5.3B+ tuples |
| Agicap | Fintech | April 2023 | ~250 RPS, 8,000+ customers |
| Zuplo | API management | 2024 | 500+ RPS spikes, multi-region edge |
| Grafana Labs | Observability | 2024 | Multi-tenant SaaS + embedded OSS |
| Docker | Developer tools | March 2024 | 100-150 RPS |
| Headspace | Mental health & consumer | 2024 | 90M lives, 6M Ebb messages, 10-15 ms p99 |
| OpenLane | Compliance SaaS | 2024 | ent ORM hooks, BatchCheck overfetch (100/1000) |
| Vitrolife Group | Healthcare | 2025 | Hybrid Entra + OpenFGA, hourly differential sync |
What these adopters have in common
- Self-hosted, open source. Every adopter cited the ability to run OpenFGA themselves as a key reason for choosing it over proprietary offerings.
- PostgreSQL at scale. Production deployments are running on Postgres, with billions of tuples in the largest case.
- ReBAC over RBAC. Each team chose relationship-based access control for the flexibility it gives over flat role models. See authorization concepts for a refresher.
- CNCF governance matters. Teams explicitly contrasted CNCF stewardship with the licensing risk of source-available alternatives.
Adopter list
OpenFGA is also publicly used by organizations including Twilio, Italia.it (Italian Government), Mercado Libre, Wolt, Canonical, and many more. The full, machine-readable list is maintained in the openfga/community repository.
Add your story
If your team runs OpenFGA in production and wants to share lessons learned, open a pull request against the openfga/community ADOPTERS file or join the CNCF Slack #openfga channel.