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Ory vs Permit.io

Permit.io scores higher on the AgentReady, 79/100 against 55/100. They differ on 14 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Ory. Ory provides secure, friction-free identity and access management for customers, partners, machines, and agents - with seamless access, granular permissions, and real-time protection.

Permit.io. Permissions for the AI era.

Where Ory is ahead

Ory passes no mandatory sales call, and Permit.io does not. That is adopt, whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop.

It also holds operate: agent compatibility verified. Permit.io misses it.

Where Permit.io is ahead

Permit.io passes llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Ory does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided and errors and status codes documented. Ory misses those.

And on adopt, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation and free trial or free allowance. Ory misses those.

Finally, on operate, structured, predictable output and machine-readable errors. Ory misses those.

What neither does

Both fail authentication documented, limits / constraints documented, self-service signup, fast time to first request, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Permit.io leads 100 to 93. Ory misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Permit.io misses nothing.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. Permit.io leads 85 to 15. Ory misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Permit.io misses authentication documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Permit.io leads 70 to 57. Ory misses self-service signup, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request; Permit.io misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, fast time to first request.

Operate. Permit.io leads 59 to 53. Ory misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; Permit.io misses retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Ory does not publish a machine-readable starting price. Permit.io does not publish one and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Permit.io clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Ory and Permit.io. Alternatives to each: Ory, Permit.io.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["ory", "permit"]}