Akto API Security Platform
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Akto API Security Platform, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Akto API Security Platform's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Akto API Security | Priced on request | Usage-based pricing · contact sales for pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Akto API Security Platform's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API discovery
- The platform automatically discovers and catalogs APIs across infrastructure.checked 30 Sep 2026
- CI/CD
- Akto supports running API security tests in CI/CD pipelines.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- Akto's platform page displays GDPR, ISO, SOC 2, and HIPAA compliance badges.checked 30 Sep 2026
- DAST testing
- Its dynamic API security testing covers the OWASP API Top 10 and business logic vulnerabilities, with manual runs, scheduled scans, and CI/CD execution.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Akto says it can be deployed in public cloud or on-premise environments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Traffic sources include Kubernetes, API gateways, AWS and GCP services, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Burp Suite, Postman, and OpenAPI.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Akto describes its API security platform as built for application security and product security teams.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Pricing
- The pricing page describes usage-based pricing and directs visitors to contact sales; it does not show a price for API Security.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Pricing basis
- Akto’s pricing-model announcement says API Security costs are based on the number of API endpoints.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Akto helps security teams discover, test, and monitor APIs using real traffic and dynamic analysis.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Runtime protection
- Akto API Protection detects API threats in real time and supports IP-based blocking and geofencing.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security monitoring
- The platform detects sensitive data exposure and authorization or authentication issues at runtime.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Security testing
- Akto lists 800+ pre-built security tests covering OWASP Top 10 and business logic vulnerabilities.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Akto lists in-app Intercom, Discord community, and email as support channels.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Test library
- Akto’s platform page states that it offers 800+ prebuilt security tests covering OWASP Top 10 and business logic vulnerabilities.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Traffic integrations
- Akto lists 50+ API traffic connectors, including eBPF, Kubernetes, NGINX, API gateways, ECS, EKS, and GCP.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Company founding
- Akto says it was founded in 2022 by Ankita Gupta and Ankush Jain.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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