Akto

About Akto

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Akto

All products by Akto reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

AktoAI Security

AI Agent Security Platform for MCPs, LLMs, and AI agents

Pricing on request7.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Akto

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Akto's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.5 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Akto competes with, and how they differ.

Wiz8.3/10

Wiz is a broad cloud security posture management platform covering CSPM, CWPP, and cloud infrastructure risk, with AI workload discovery as one module rather than a dedicated AI/LLM security focus like Akto.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Snyk8.2/10

Snyk focuses on developer-centric application security (SCA, SAST, container scanning) and has added AI/LLM security features as an extension of its existing code security suite, rather than being purpose-built for AI agent and MCP server testing.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Promptfoo8.5/10

Promptfoo is an open-source LLM red-teaming and evaluation tool focused on prompt/output testing during development, whereas Akto also covers runtime API discovery and protection for deployed AI agents and MCP servers.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Lakera

Lakera Guard focuses on LLM prompt injection detection and guardrails, offering a runtime protection API rather than Akto's broader discovery-plus-testing platform for agents and MCP servers.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Akto's history, with sources.

1. September 2025Launch

   Launched full Agentic Security Platform

   Akto launched its full Agentic Security Platform, expanding beyond API security to discover, red-team, and enforce runtime guardrails on AI agents and MCP servers.

   appsecsanta.com
2. June 2025Launch

   Shipped one of the first dedicated MCP security solutions

   Akto shipped one of the first dedicated security solutions for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, part of its pivot from API security into AI agent security.

   appsecsanta.com
3. Feb 13, 2024Launch

   Launched GenAI Security Testing solution

   Akto announced GenAI Security Testing, described as a proactive testing solution to enhance the security of generative AI models and large language models.

   siliconangle.com
4. Jan 31, 2023Launch

   Released open-source API security platform

   Akto released an open-source, instant API security platform enabling teams to discover APIs, run security tests in CI/CD, and detect sensitive data exposure.

   akto.io
5. Nov 3, 2022Funding

   Seed round — $4.5M led by Accel India

   Akto raised a $4.5 million seed round led by Accel India, with participation from angel investors including Notion co-founder Akshay Kothari, Tenable co-founder Renaud Deraison, and Sentry CEO Milin Desai, to build its plug-and-play API security platform.

   techfundingnews.com
6. 2022Founded

   Akto founded

   Akto was founded in 2022 by Ankita Gupta (CEO) and Ankush Jain (CTO), starting as an open-source API security tool before later expanding into AI agent security.

   appsecsanta.com