# A Developer's Guide to API Access Policies in Auth0

DevFeed: [A Developer's Guide to API Access Policies in Auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-developer-s-guide-to-api-access-policies-in-auth0-15639.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://auth0.com/blog/developers-guide-api-access-policies-auth0/>)

Author: Madhuri Ravindra Mohan

Published: 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Auth0 Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/auth0-blog.md>)

Topics: [Auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/auth0.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Web app](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webapp.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth0.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [fintech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fintech.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [web-app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-app.md>)

## AI overview

A developer guide to Auth0 API Access Policies for Applications. It explains how to configure per-API policies through the Auth0 Dashboard or Management API, and how to distinguish machine-to-machine client access from user-delegated access.

## Source excerpt

Explore how to properly configure Auth0 API Access Policies and client grants to draw a hard line between strict M2M security and user-delegated access.