Akto
Unified security platform that discovers, tests, and protects AI agents, APIs, and supporting infrastructure from threats
- Also known as
- akto
Available worldwide
What is Akto?
Platform for security teams to automatically discover and catalog AI agents, MCPs, and APIs; test for vulnerabilities with 1000+ security checks; enforce real-time protections; and maintain audit trails for compliance with AI governance frameworks.
Akto pricing
We don't have Akto's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Usage-based enterprise pricing. Contact sales for specifics.
What Akto does
The capabilities that matter for api security, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- Out of band mirror
- Shadow zombie API discovery
- ✓
- Pii phi data classification
- ✓
- Bola idor vulnerability detection
- ✓
- Openapi swagger schema validation
- -
- Ci cd shift left testing
- ✓
- Ebpf kubernetes traffic capture
- ✓
- Automated threat blocking remediation
- ✓
- Owasp API top 10 coverage
- ✓
- Graphql grpc support
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (68)
Independently observed- ChatGPT⇄•
- Anthropic Compliance API⇄•
- OpenAI Compliance API⇄•
- AWS API Gateway⇄•
- Layer 7⇄•
- AWS Fargate⇄•
- GCP⇄•
- Azure⇄•
- Microsoft Intune⇄•
- NinjaOne⇄•
- Automox⇄•
- SIEM→•
- BurpSuite⇄•
- AWS Bedrock
- Azure AI Foundry
- Google Vertex AI
- Databricks
- IBM Watsonx
- LiteLLM
- Copilot Studio
- Langchain
- n8n
- TrueFoundry
- Snowflake
- Arcade
- Salesforce
- Claude
- OpenAI
- Gemini
- Llama
- DeepSeek
- Grok
- Portkey
- Kong
- F5
- Azure API Gateway
- Apigee
- Mulesoft
- Istio
- NGINX
- Cloudflare
- Envoy
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
- VSCode
- IntelliJ
- Neovim
- CrowdStrike
- SentinelOne
- Microsoft Defender
- Zscaler
- Cloudflare WARP
- Chrome Extension
- Firefox Extension
- Safari Extension
- Ollama
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- vLLM
- AWS Lambda
- AWS ECS
- AWS EKS
- Google Cloud Run
- Burp Suite←•
- AWS⇄•
- Postman←•
- Google Cloud Platform⇄•
- Heroku⇄•
Akto FAQ
Common questions about Akto, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Akto?
An open-source platform that builds an inventory of AI agents, MCPs, and APIs running across infrastructure while testing for security vulnerabilities including OWASP Top 10 categories. It is indexed under API Security.
Source: https://www.akto.io
Is Akto free to use?
Akto is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.akto.io
What platforms does Akto support?
Akto supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.akto.io
Can Akto be self-hosted?
Yes. Akto can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.akto.io
What does Akto integrate with?
We have confirmed 52 integrations for Akto, including AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, IBM Watsonx, LiteLLM, Copilot Studio and Langchain, plus 44 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.akto.io
Akto alternatives
Other api security we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- EscapeAI-driven platform for automated vulnerability discovery and remediation in modern applicationslow · 33%
- Salt SecurityDiscover and monitor agents, MCP servers, and APIs across your infrastructure to detect threats and enforce compliance in real-time.low · 35%
- APIsecAI-powered platform for discovering APIs and validating exploitable security vulnerabilities at scalelow · 12%
- Wallarmmedium · 53%
- FireTailPlatform for discovering, assessing, and protecting AI usage across organizationsmedium · 54%
- Cequence SecuritySecurity platform protecting applications, APIs, and AI agents from automated attacks, fraud, and unauthorized accesslow · 13%
Compare Akto
Side by side against other api security, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Akto, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.05 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 66 | 0.05 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.21 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Deployment model: out_of_band_mirror · Graphql grpc support: Yes · Ci cd shift left testing: Yes · Owasp api top 10 coverage: Yes · Pii phi data classification: Yes · Shadow zombie api discovery: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 200 | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 50% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Trust center | https://www.akto.io/openai-compliance | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
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