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title: Authorize Gateway Decision Evaluation
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# Authorize Gateway Decision Evaluation

Decision requests to an Authorize gateway instance are used to determine whether a user or system is permitted to perform a specific action.

The decision evaluation endpoints for Authorize gateway instances can handle individual and bulk decision requests.

See the following API examples:

* [Evaluate an Individual Decision Request](evaluate-an-individual-decision-request/create-an-individual-decision-request.html) for evaluating a single decision request that includes a set of parameters and optional PingOne user context.

* [Evaluate a Bulk Decision Request](evaluate-a-bulk-decision-request/create-a-bulk-decision-request.html) for evaluating an array of individual decision requests with a single API call. Bulk requests reduce latency and network overhead when you need to evaluate several access scenarios at once.