Product packaging and feature gating with policy
Control which features are available to which customers using authorization policy. Trials, tiers, custom bundles, and enterprise contracts, all without hardcoding.
Built for product-led growth
Authorization-driven product packaging
Feature gating without hardcoded flags
Control which features are available to which customers using policy, not feature flags buried in code.
Map product packages to Cerbos roles for clean, declarative entitlements.
Sub-millisecond entitlement checks with no external runtime dependency.
Define complex package hierarchies where premium includes standard includes free.
Support custom contracts and one-off feature bundles for enterprise customers.
Time-limited trials and dynamic upgrades
Offer trial access to premium features with time-based conditions, and upgrade packages instantly via policy changes.
Use time-based conditions in policies to automatically expire trial access.
Upgrade or downgrade customer packages instantly by updating policy, not code.
Build self-service upgrade flows that trigger policy changes via the Cerbos API.
Test package configurations in the Cerbos Playground before deploying to production.
Full visibility into entitlement decisions
Understand exactly which features are accessible to which customers, and prove it for billing, compliance, and support.
Log every entitlement check with package, feature, and decision result.
Trace feature access back to the exact policy version for billing accuracy.
Support customer success teams with clear visibility into what each customer can access.
Simple integration
Implement product packaging in four steps
1
Define your packages as policies
Map product tiers (free, standard, premium) to authorization policies that control which features each package can access.
2
Gate features with a single API call
Check entitlements at runtime by calling Cerbos. Get an instant allow/deny decision based on the user's package.
3
Update packages without code deploys
Add features to a tier or create a new package by updating policy files. No application redeployment needed.
4
Audit every entitlement decision
Track which features were accessed, by whom, under which package, with full decision-level evidence.
Seamless integration
Works with your existing tools, workflows, and infrastructure
Flexible policy sources
Manage packaging policies from any Git provider, CI/CD tool, Cerbos Hub API, CLI, or direct UI upload.
SDKs for every stack
First-class SDKs for JS, Go, Python, Java, .NET, Rust, PHP, and Ruby.
Deployment targets
Deploy Cerbos PDPs in containers, serverless, edge, or multi-region clusters.
Compliance ready audit logs
Ensure audit readiness for SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
How teams use Cerbos for product packaging
“We can make unlimited conditions, attributes, parameters to any granularity level without writing any code. It allows us to deliver truly personalized services quickly, securely & at scale.”
Karen Kim
CEO @Human Managed
Days-long coding task reduced to 5 minutes.
Dependencies and middleware replaced with a single binary.
Why teams choose Cerbos for product packaging
Flexible packaging
Define unlimited package tiers, custom bundles, and trial configurations with policy.
Instant updates
Change what features are in a package without code changes or redeployments.
Billing accuracy
Audit every entitlement decision for accurate billing reconciliation.
No custom infrastructure
Replace homegrown feature-flag systems with a dedicated authorization layer.
Learn more about product packaging with Cerbos
Ebook
How to adopt externalized authorization
Article
Designing an authorization model that scales with your business
Article
ePDP Rules: Fine-grained control for embedded policy bundles
Product packaging
Control feature access with policy, not code
See how Cerbos helps product teams implement flexible packaging, trials, and entitlements without engineering bottlenecks.
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What is Cerbos?
Cerbos is an end-to-end enterprise authorization software for Zero Trust environments and AI-powered systems. It enforces fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization across apps, APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, services, and workloads.
Cerbos consists of an open-source Policy Decision Point, Enforcement Point integrations, and a centrally managed Policy Administration Plane (Cerbos Hub) that coordinates unified policy-based authorization across your architecture. Enforce least privilege & maintain full visibility into access decisions with Cerbos authorization.