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Cerbos vs GrowthBook

Our take

Pick Cerbos if app teams who will run the OSS PDP at $0 from disk or git, or start Hub PoC at $0/month (100 MAPs, 2 developers, 5 builds/week) and land on Development from $25/month when they need managed bundle distribution and a 3-month trial. Pick GrowthBook if product/eng teams who will stay on Starter Free $0 (1 project, 1M warehouse events, no card) while they ship a first flag, then buy Pro at $40 per seat /

Cerbos

Cerbos

authorization desk

GrowthBook

GrowthBook

open-source feature-flag + experiment desk

Best for

Cerbos Policies you start at $0

GrowthBook Flags and A/B tests you start at $0 (1 project, no card)

Free plan

Cerbos $0 · , “Free forever.” YAML policies, audit logs, CI/CD & IDE tooling, Git/Disk/Cloud/DB storage. Community support. Run the PDP in your environment

GrowthBook $0 · 1 project. Bring your own warehouse. Managed warehouse option. 1M events/mo. 1M CDN requests/mo. 5 GB CDN bandwidth/mo. No card

Lowest paid

Cerbos Production (Hub) $933/mo

GrowthBook Overage (Pro) $30

Next step up

Cerbos

GrowthBook Pro $40/mo

Watch out

Cerbos Hub “from $25” / “from $933” is MAP-metered

GrowthBook Starter is 1 project and 1M events

Last checked

Cerbos 2026-10-22 · cerbos.dev/pricing

GrowthBook 2026-10-22 · growthbook.io/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Cerbos if

app teams who will run the OSS PDP at $0 from disk or git, or start Hub PoC at $0/month (100 MAPs, 2 developers, 5 builds/week) and land on Development from $25/month when they need managed bundle distribution and a 3-month trial.

Read the Cerbos page

Pick GrowthBook if

product/eng teams who will stay on Starter Free $0 (1 project, 1M warehouse events, no card) while they ship a first flag, then buy Pro at $40 per seat / month when they need 3 projects, 2M events, and advanced experiment stats.

Read the GrowthBook page

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