About
Permit.io is an authorization platform for apps, APIs, data, and AI agent workflows. It provides policy enforcement through a policy engine and PDPs, with support for RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and PBAC, plus GitOps, SDK, API, and Terraform-based policy management.
The free Community plan includes UI and API access for all authorization models, embeddable authorization interfaces, unlimited authorization microservices, shared access to workspaces and environments, and basic Slack support. The pricing page lists a perpetual free offering with concrete limits including 1,000 MAU, 20 tenants, 25 roles, 50 resource types, 2,000 role assignments, 20 groups, 2,000 resource instances, 3 environments, 14 days of logs retention, and single-region deployment.
Free Tier Value
This free tier is perpetual and does not require a credit card, which lowers friction, but it still has clear caps on MAU, tenants, roles, environments, and retention. Compared with the cheapest paid plan starting at $5/month, the free offering covers most of the core product experience for small teams, so it is worth about $4/month.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to UI and API for RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, PBAC, and IaC authorization models.
- Embeddable authorization interfaces, such as user management.
- Unlimited authorization microservices (PDP).
- Shared access to workspaces and environments.
- Basic Slack support.
- Up to 1,000 monthly active users.
- Up to 20 tenants.
- Unlimited authorization queries.
- Up to 25 roles.
- Up to 50 resource types.
- Up to 5 condition sets.
- Up to 2,000 role assignments.
- Up to 20 groups.
- Up to 2,000 resource instances.
- Permit Elements included.
- Policy editor UI included.
- Modeling via UI, API, SDK, and IaC.
- Cloud console included.
- Backoffice dashboard included.
- Early access program access.
- Up to 3 environments.
- Unlimited projects.
- Git policy storage included.
- Sync policies to your own Git.
- Fully API-driven access.
- Language SDKs included.
- CI/CD-ready support.
- Authorization query types: check, bulk check, data filtering, and reverse indices.
- Terraform provider configuration included.
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and SSH-based Git provider support.
- Automated GitOps CI/CD pipeline included.
- API gateway and proxy integrations included.
- Database and GraphQL integrations included.
- User provisioning via SDK/API.
- JWT-based identity/authentication provider integrations included.
- Hybrid deployment included.
- Unlimited PDP instances.
- Single deployment region.
- Operational audit logs included.
- Decision logs included.
- 14 days of logs retention.
- Best-effort support SLA.
- Community Slack support channel.
- Free pricing model.
See Permit.io pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Startup
- MAU
- 25,000
- tenants
- 100
- environments
- 5
- All Community features
- Up to 25,000 MAU and 100 tenants
- Up to 5 environments
- Full GitOps CI/CD pipeline for automated deployments
- Extendable audit and decision logs retention
- Logs forwarder for enhanced monitoring
Pro
- MAU
- 50,000
- tenants
- 20,000
- environments
- 50
- All Startup features
- Up to 50,000 MAU and 20,000 tenants
- Up to 50 environments
- Dedicated Slack support channel with prioritized email, Zoom, and Slack support
- SoC2 Type II compliance report and certification
- Enhanced audit log retention (21 days, extendable)
- Add SSO support for enhanced access management (additional cost)
Enterprise
- MAU
- No limits
- tenants
- No limits
- projects
- No limits
- environments
- No limits
- All Pro features
- No limits on MAU and tenants
- No limits on projects and environments
- Dedicated customer success representative
- Full compliance suite (HIPAA BAA, GDPR, CCPA, SoC2)
- Multi-cloud and on-prem deployment options
- Professional services and custom terms & conditions agreement
- Advanced cloud uptime upgrade (0.9999% SLA)
Pricing extracted from Permit.io's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
