Benefits
OpenFGA provides developers the following benefits:- Move authorization logic outside of application code, making it easier to write, change and audit.
- Increase velocity by standardizing on a single authorization solution.
- Centralize authorization decisions and audit logs making it simpler to comply with security and compliance requirements.
- Help their products to move faster because it is simpler to evolve authorization policies.
Features
OpenFGA helps developers achieve those benefits with features as:- Support for multiple stores that allow authorization management in different environments (prod/testing/dev) and use cases (internal apps, external apps, infrastructure).
- Support for some ABAC scenarios with Contextual Tuples and Conditional Relationship Tuples.
- SDKs for Java, .NET, Javascript, Go, and Python.
- HTTP and gRPC APIs.
- Support for being run as a library, from with a Go based service.
- Support for using Postgres, MySQL or SQLite as the production datastore, as well as an in-memory datastore for non-production usage.
- A Command Line Interface tool for managing OpenFGA stores, test models, import/export models, and data.
- Github Actions for testing and deploying models.
- A Visual Studio Code Extension with syntax highlighting and validation of FGA models and tests.
- Helm Charts to easily deploy to Kubernetes.
- OpenTelemetry support to integrate it with your monitoring infrastructure.
Related Sections
Check the following sections to learn more about OpenFGA.Authorization Concepts
Learn about Authorization.
Product Concepts
Learn about OpenFGA.
Modeling: Getting Started
Learn about how to get started with modeling your permission system in OpenFGA.
Use Cases
Patterns for AI agents, RAG, MCP servers, multi-tenant SaaS, and microservices.
Industries
Sample models for healthcare, banking, e-commerce, HR, CRM, and LMS.
Learn Authorization
Zanzibar, ReBAC vs RBAC, ABAC vs ReBAC, and fine-grained authorization explained.