Authorization Core vs. Authorization Extension

Auth0 currently provides two ways of implementing role-based access control (RBAC): our Core implementation and our Authorization Extension, which will be deprecated. Our Core implementation improves performance and scalability.

We recommend using Authorization Core for most implementations. If you are looking to represent teams, business customers, or partners in a B2B or SaaS application, we recommend representing them as Organizations and using Authorization Core. The Authorization Extension does not have support for Organizations.

To help you decide which feature is right for your implementation, we present the differences between the two:

Feature	Authorization Core	Authorization Extension
Enhanced performance and scalability	Yes - See Authorization Core RBAC Limits	No - Limited to 500KB of data (1000 groups, 3000 users, where each user is a member of 3 groups; or 20 groups, 7000 users, where each user is a member of 3 groups)
Create/edit/delete roles	Yes	Yes
Roles can contain permissions from one or more APIs	Yes	No
Roles can be assigned to groups	Yes	Yes
Roles can be assigned to user groups	No	Yes
Roles are attached to specific applications	No	Yes
Create/edit/delete users	Yes	Yes
Search users by user, email, connection	Yes	Yes
Search users by identity provider, login count, last login, phone number	Yes	No
Search users using lucene syntax	Yes	No
Users can be assigned to groups	Yes - use Organizations	Yes - if using Organizations
User import/export via JSON	Not currently	Yes
Create custom authorization policies	Yes	No

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