An authorization service. Your app asks Cerbos "may this user — or this AI agent — do this thing to this record, right now?" and Cerbos answers from policies written once in YAML and held in one place, instead of permission if-statements scattered through your code. Three parts: Cerbos PDP (the open-source Apache-2.0 decision engine you run yourself), Cerbos Hub (the hosted control plane that authors, tests, versions and distributes the policies, and keeps the audit log), and Cerbos Synapse (fetches user/resource data from other systems so a decision can use facts the request did not carry).
| Industry | AI & Machine Learning |
| Funding | |
| Stage | Seed |
| Website | Visit Cerbos |
Where Cerbos sits against the other names we cover on this beat. Each line is that company’s verdict, not a summary of it.
The 2026-07-30 print settled four of the five questions the prior dossier said it could
Cash $78.2B