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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.

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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.

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Adopter list

OpenFGA is also publicly used by organizations including Wolt, Canonical, and many more. The full list is maintained in the openfga/community repository.

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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.
Last modified on September 28, 2026