Cerbos

Cerbos belongs in the catalog because it is one of the clearest policy-as-code authorization products in the current market. The official site and pricing page make the split easy to understand: open-source distributed policy decision points are free forever, while Cerbos Hub adds managed control-plane features, audit logs, CI/CD support, and team workflows. That makes Cerbos especially relevant for teams that want externalized authorization logic without surrendering runtime enforcement to a fully opaque SaaS.

The pricing quality here is genuinely strong. Cerbos publishes a free open-source tier, a free Proof of Concept cloud plan, Development from $25 per month, Production from $933 per month, and Enterprise as custom. The pricing page also clearly explains the billing unit: monthly active principals. That transparency makes Cerbos one of the best authorization entries to compare because teams can reason about both the OSS adoption path and the commercial scaling model.