Decionis vs Permit.io
Model application permissions with Permit; bind a consequential execution and its evidence with Decionis.
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When is Permit.io the better choice?
- Your central problem is application permission modelling.
- You need relationship-based or attribute-based access control.
- You want permission management and approval UI components.
- A permission decision and your existing audit system meet the requirement.
Basis: Permit documentation
What changes at the execution boundary?
| Dimension | Decionis | Permit.io |
|---|---|---|
| Control boundary | One exact action, with authority re-evaluated immediately before commit. | Permit documents RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, policy-as-code, a policy decision point, and an MCP gateway with auth, consent and audit. |
| Evidence | Signed Decision Dossier; verify the covered artifacts with the appropriate public keys, without an account. | Permit documents audit logs and approval components. The documentation reviewed does not describe Decionis-format action-bound Decision Dossiers. |
| Deployment responsibility | The integrating host must isolate credentials, prevent bypass and enforce the decision. | Evaluate the chosen deployment and its enforcement boundary; a product category is not evidence of a specific installation. |
| Procurement posture | Ed25519-signed Decision Dossiers · single-use execution grants. These pages compare engineering and architecture, not certifications; current audit status is on the Trust Center. | Obtain current assurance documents and check the service and deployment they cover. |
Decionis contract: enforce-and-bind, claim-before-commit and finalize. Signature validity is separate from execution eligibility and downstream effect confirmation.
Can these controls work together?
Permission checks can supply context to an execution gate. This is an integration choice, not a claim that Permit only evaluates booleans or cannot inspect action attributes.
Check the evidence
Verify this yourself — no account, works offline
This preloaded dossier has real Ed25519 signatures over synthetic data from the public Agent-Safe corpus. Its test key is deliberately public. It demonstrates verification and tamper detection; it is not customer evidence, a production signature, or permission to execute.
Ready to check locally
npx -y @decionis/verify --file OwnedExecutionBound.json --jwks Jwks.json
After the page or files load, the signature checks need no network. Installing the CLI may require a connection. Valid signatures establish integrity relative to the selected key, not whether the original facts were true.
Sources and scope
- Permit documentation · checked 2026-09-16
A capability not described in the cited public material may still exist. This is a technical comparison of documented controls, not a claim of exhaustive vendor testing.