authzed
AuthZed scores 69/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
AuthZed — 2 products
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Self-serve checkout with public pricing — an autonomous agent can complete the purchase without a sales call.
1 SKU priced per hour
| Model / SKU | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
AuthZed Cloud Compute Cloud usage billed per vCPU hour | $2 / hour | — |
How authzed scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
20 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
69 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 vCPU running continuously for a month
$1460/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
Available
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Positioning & ecosystem
“Production-ready authorization infrastructure for your application ecosystem with pay-as-you-grow pricing.”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from authzed?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How authzed could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | AuthZed Pricing — How mature is your authorization? Take our free 2-minute assessment |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://authzed.com/docs/spicedb/getting-started/discovering-spicedb |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | true |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Identity And Access Management IAM
AuthZed Pricing — How mature is your authorization? Take our free 2-minute assessment
3
No
Sales-led
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Pay-as-you-go API
AuthZed pricing starts at $2/hr for its cloud service; a free self‑hosted open‑source option is available. Paid usage is billed per hour.
Free self‑hosted Open Source (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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