Akto vs Salt: Why security teams choose Akto
Salt is a reactive API Security platform. It's too late to secure APIs post deployment in a reactive manner. Akto's vision is to solve for API Security from the first line of code and it does so by tightly integrating in your CI/CD pipeline.
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Transparent pricing and available free plan
Akto's pricing is transparent. You pay for what you use. We believe the best validation is by trying the product yourself and only pay if you are satisfied.
No free plan, gets very expensive as number of APIs increases. Pricing is not transparent.
Ease of setup and Open Source
Akto is open source and we are building in public. You can use Akto's open source version before you decide to use Enterprise version.
You can deploy Akto self hosted and cloud in less than 5 minutes.
Deployment takes a long time and several technical calls.
API Discovery
Automated API Inventory with multiple traffic connections.
Comparable native capabilities
Sensitive Data Exposure
Has inbuilt 50+ sensitive data types. You can add your own.
Comparable native capabilities
API Changes
Alerts on every new API and old API changes
Comparable native capabilities
API Security Testing
Extensive and world's fastest testing capabilities with results in seconds and not hours.
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Test Templates
World's largest API Security Test library that's growing every day.
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OWASP Top 10 Coverage
Complete coverage of the OWASP Top 10. Check out the test library
Partial coverage
Contextual Business logic testing
Write your contextual business logic tests with Akto's Test editor
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Automation and CI/CD
Extensive integrations with CI/CD plugins
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Block API Threats
❌, Akto finds vulnerabilities pre deployment in CI/CD
Native capabilities
AI Assistant
AktoGPT has capabilities far beyond any API data monitoring tool. You can ask GPT to create tests, find sensitive information, prioritize APIs and so on.
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Want the best proactive API Security product?
Our customers love us for our proactive approach and world class API Security test templates. Try Akto's test library yourself in your testing playground. Play with the default test or add your own.
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