Alternatives

Permify alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

Current skill

Permify

An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of FusionAuth 🎉

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#1

Spicedb

Similarity 154Trust 89Excellent 100

Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data

7.1K starsSep 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add authzed/spicedb
#2

Harbor

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor
#3

Linkerd2

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#4

Rook

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 100

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rook/rook
#5

Vcluster

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add loft-sh/vcluster
#6

Crossplane

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Control Plane

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add crossplane/crossplane
#7

Talos

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 100

Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add siderolabs/talos
#8

Fission

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 99

Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

8.9K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add fission/fission
#9

Quarkus

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus
#10

Apisix

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 100

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

17K starsAug 24, 2026 pushdevopsLuaKubernetes
$ npx skills add apache/apisix
#11

Authentik

Similarity 117Trust 83Excellent 100

The authentication glue you need.

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsPythonKubernetes
$ npx skills add goauthentik/authentik
#12

WasmEdge

Similarity 117Trust 89Excellent 100

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

11K starsJul 22, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge
#13

Seaweedfs

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.

33K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add seaweedfs/seaweedfs
#14

Authelia

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

29K starsSep 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add authelia/authelia
#15

Etcd

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

52K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add etcd-io/etcd
#16

Trivy

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

38K starsSep 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy

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When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Permify if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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