# OpenFGA

Open-source authorization server for fine-grained, relationship-based access control, configured with a modeling language and queried through APIs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/openfga/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://openfga.dev
- repository: https://github.com/openfga/openfga
- docs: https://openfga.dev/docs
- x: https://twitter.com/OpenFGA
- mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@openfga
- forum: https://github.com/orgs/openfga/discussions
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenFGA

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: OpenFGA
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2022
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: auth
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: postgres, mysql, sqlite
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6083
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 113
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://openfga.dev/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/openfga/openfga (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://openfga.dev/docs (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://openfga.dev/ (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://openfga.dev/ (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/openfga/openfga (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://openfga.dev/docs/getting-started/setup-openfga/kubernetes (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://openfga.dev/docs/getting-started/setup-openfga/docker (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://openfga.dev/docs/getting-started/setup-openfga/configuration (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/openfga/openfga (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://openfga.dev/ (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/openfga/openfga (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/openfga/openfga (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

OpenFGA decides whether a user may act on an object. An application writes an authorization model in a modeling language, stores relationship tuples and asks the server for checks. The server runs an HTTP API and a gRPC API, and it keeps its data in PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite. The project publishes SDKs for several languages, so an application calls the server through a client library.

The project names itself an incubating project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and its footer names The Linux Foundation.

## Worth knowing

The Playground, a web interface for trying out models, is meant for local development only.

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