Zanzibar authorization for teams that don't have 50 engineers.

Bailiff gives you Google-style, relationship-based authorization with a clean UI and SDKs for your stack. Start with roles, grow into full ReBAC—all hosted, audited, and affordable.

Founding users get free model migration and locked beta pricing.

What Bailiff is

Enterprise-grade authorization, without the enterprise bill.

Bailiff is a hosted Zanzibar-based authorization service that starts as simple roles, then grows with you into full ReBAC—complete with a UI anyone can use.

Defines relationships between users, resources, and actions.

Handles permissions for apps, APIs, and microservices.

Explains every "why allowed / why denied."

Ships with a visual model builder and audit UI.

From side project to SOC2-level access control

in minutes—not months.

The authorization pain you know too well

You can't scale is_admin and user_id = owner forever.

Feature flags turned into access control spaghetti.

Compliance wants proof—engineering wants to sleep.

Zanzibar is elegant—but building it from scratch is madness.

How Bailiff fixes it

Start simple, scale powerful—all with the tools your team actually wants to use.

Simple roles first

Start with admin, editor, viewer right in the UI.

Zanzibar under the hood

Relationship tuples, namespaces, and checks at wire speed.

Explainable access

"Why?" panel that traces the decision path through roles and relationships.

Draft & simulate

Safely test changes on production data before rollout.

Hosted & affordable

No infra, no 100k/year license, no 10-engineer migration.

Visual Builder
Role Builder

admin → can_edit → workspace

Relationship Graph
Graph View

Visualize relationships and permissions

Transparency
Audit Pane

Explain every allow/deny decision

How it compares

See why teams choose Bailiff for authorization that scales.

FeatureBailiffWorkOS FGAAuth0 Fine-GrainedSpiceDB Self-Host
Hosted ReBAC
Role UI⚠️
Audit & Explain⚠️⚠️⚠️
Draft/Simulate⚠️
Pricing💸 starts <$50/mo$$$$$$DIY costs

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Enterprise-grade authorization, without the enterprise bill.

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