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title: PingAuthorize API Reference
description: The PingAuthorize Server and Policy Editor provide a collection of APIs for managing authorization resources and leveraging fine-grained authorization capabilities in your application or API service.
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# PingAuthorize API Reference

The PingAuthorize Server and Policy Editor provide a collection of APIs for managing authorization resources and leveraging fine-grained authorization capabilities in your application or API service.

* The Authorization Policy Decision APIs support non-API use cases where the PingAuthorize Server acts as the policy decision point (PDP), and your application server acts as the policy enforcement point (PEP). Learn more in the [Authorization Policy Decision API Reference](https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingauthorize/pingauthorize/policy-decision.html).

* The Policy Editor APIs enable programmatic management of authorization resources, including:

  * Authorization policies, rules, targets, and statements

  * Trust Framework elements such as attributes, conditions, processors, and services

  * Branches, snapshots, and deployment packages

  * Test scenarios, test cases, and assertions

  Learn more in the [Policy Editor API Reference](https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingauthorize/pingauthorize/policy-editor.html).

* The PingAuthorize Server's built-in System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) service provides a REST API for data that is stored in one or more external datastores, based on the [SCIM 2.0 standard](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7644). Learn more in the [SCIM API Reference](https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingauthorize/pingauthorize/scim.html).