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Knostic

Knostic sells security software for enterprises to discover AI agents, inspect their dependencies, and prevent unsafe actions.

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• Kirin Application Sold on its own

  Kirin inspects AI coding assistants, their connections, and their actions to detect threats, protect sensitive information, and enforce security policies.

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CCyeraLate-stageKirin and Cyera AI Runtime Protection do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCPCheck Point Software TechnologiesPublicKirin and AI Network Firewall do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGAGeordie AIEarly-stageKirin and Beam do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePSPillar SecurityEarly-stageKirin and Runtime Guardrails do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ships platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareWWitnessAIEarly-stageKirin and Witness Protect do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePAPalo Alto NetworksPublicKirin and AI Access Security do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTraceforceUndisclosedKirin and Traceforce do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePPreambleUndisclosedKirin and AI Threat Detection do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHiddenLayerEarly-stageKirin and Agent Harness Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHSHarmonic SecurityUndisclosedKirin and Harmonic Guide do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPalisadeUndisclosedKirin and Palisade do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunlayerEarly-stageKirin and ToolGuard do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEAEnkrypt AIAcquiredKirin and Enkrypt AI do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; Enkrypt AI is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareILIndora LabsUndisclosedKirin and Arbiter do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLSLumia SecurityEarly-stageKirin and AI Usage Control do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSentinelOnePublicKirin and Prompt Security do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZscalerPublicKirin and Zscaler AI Guard for Apps do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrowdStrikePublicKirin and Falcon Guardian do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareASAbnormal SecurityLate-stageKirin and AI Agent Security do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVAVectra AILate-stageKirin and Cloud Detection and Response for AWS do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAurascapeEarly-stageKirin and Zero-Bypass MCP Gateway do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Late-stageKirin and Glean Protect do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLassoEarly-stageKirin and Lasso AI Security Platform do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAAdversa AIUndisclosedKirin and Coding Agent Security Platform do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareWWizAcquiredKirin and Wiz AI-SPM do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded; Wiz is acquired, with no independent scale; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareJJFrogPublicKirin and JFrog MCP Registry do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLALumenova AIUndisclosedKirin and AI Gateway do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDADynamo AIUndisclosedKirin and DynamoGuard do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLiminalUndisclosedKirin and Liminal do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFortinetPublicKirin and FortiAIGate do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHarnessLate-stageKirin and AI Firewall do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublicKirin and IBM Guardium AI Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZenityLate-stageKirin and Zenity Platform do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLogosGuardUndisclosedKirin and LogosGuard AI Privacy Shield do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASingulr AIEarly-stageKirin and Singulr Agent Pulse do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNebuSecUndisclosedKirin and NebuSec Code Security both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublicKirin and Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAWArctic WolfUndisclosedKirin and Aurora Managed Detection and Response both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEExpelUndisclosedKirin and Expel Workbench both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMaxim AIUndisclosedKirin and Bifrost Edge both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCraniumEarly-stageKirin and Cranium ONE do comparable work on guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSalesforcePublicKirin and MuleSoft Agent Fabric both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDarktraceLate-stageKirin and Darktrace / Attack Surface Management both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRCRed CanaryAcquiredKirin and Zscaler Managed Phishing Response both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded; Red Canary is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSServiceNowPublicKirin and AI Control Tower do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCiscoPublicKirin and Cisco AI Defense do comparable work on data security, guardrails and safety and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDoppelLate-stageKirin and Doppel Email Security both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHuntressUndisclosedKirin and Huntress Platform (Athena Engine) both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWorkdayPublicKirin and Agent Passport both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVercelLate-stageKirin and Vercel Passport both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEchoMarkEarly-stageKirin and EchoMark Email both list data security; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSplunkAcquiredKirin and Splunk Enterprise Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSAPPublicKirin and SAP AI Agent Hub both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDataikuLate-stageKirin and Dataiku Govern both list guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePGPrediction GuardEarly-stageKirin and Prediction Guard Control Plane both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareTTorqLate-stageKirin and Torq Case Management both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCloudPeekUndisclosedKirin and CloudPeek Vulnerability Intelligence both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTolmoUndisclosedKirin and Tolmo both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMFMind FoundryEarly-stageKirin and Nightingale both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNiCEPublicKirin and NiCE Quality Management both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenHackUndisclosedKirin and OpenHack both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOktaPublicKirin and Identity Threat Protection both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVLVeria LabsUndisclosedKirin and Veria both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOObiguardUndisclosedKirin and Governance AI do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAsenionUndisclosedKirin and Asenion AI Control System both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlethicaUndisclosedKirin and Policy-as-Code both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFAFiddler AILate-stageKirin and Fiddler AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDocusignPublicKirin and Docusign Identify both list data security; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTridentUndisclosedKirin and Trident both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFabraixUndisclosedKirin and Nyx both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDelineaUndisclosedKirin and Identity Threat Protection both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAnacondaLate-stageKirin and AI Security & Guardrails do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDefendLabUndisclosedKirin and DefendLab both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAntigenUndisclosedKirin and Antigen both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareJJasperUndisclosedKirin and Jasper Brand IQ both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZapierLate-stageKirin and AI Guardrails by Zapier do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareITInvisible TechnologiesLate-stageKirin and Synapse both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; ships agent platform, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSStacktraceUndisclosedKirin and Stacktrace Personal Agent Gateway both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform and developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAccenturePublicKirin and Cyber.AI both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPalantirPublicKirin and Palantir Apollo both list data security; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAArthur AIEarly-stageKirin and Arthur Agent Security & Governance both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNetarxUndisclosedKirin and Netarx Identity Key (NIK) both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKAKlira AIUndisclosedKirin and Klira SDK both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLatentUndisclosedKirin and Latent both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSalusUndisclosedKirin and Salus both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAAlinia AIEarly-stageKirin and Seny both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; ships model API rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareDDatadogPublicKirin and Datadog AI Guard both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNeuralTrustEarly-stageKirin and TrustGuard both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNVIDIAPublicKirin and NVIDIA OpenShell do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublicKirin and OCI Enterprise AI both list guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHamming AIEarly-stageKirin and Hamming both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareFAFuture AGIUndisclosedKirin and Future AGI both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, API service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRAResemble AIEarly-stageKirin and Resemble Meetings both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCodeRabbitLate-stageKirin and CodeRabbit Security both list guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRindlerUndisclosedKirin and Maxxwell both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareNSNera SystemsUndisclosedKirin and Nera ChatApp both list data security; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAFAgentic FabriqUndisclosedKirin and Agentic Fabriq both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform and developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEElasticPublicKirin and Attack Discovery both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSierraLate-stageKirin and Ghostwriter both serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareRRogoLate-stageKirin and Watchtower both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGuild.aiUndisclosedKirin and Guild agent control plane both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform and developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHAHippocratic AILate-stageKirin and AI Call Supervisor both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAILate-stageKirin and OpenAI Daybreak do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHaptikAcquiredKirin and AI Agent Builder both serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; Knostic's scale not recorded; Haptik is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareAAAutomation AnywhereUndisclosedKirin and Process Discovery both serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecaworkUndisclosedKirin and Decawork both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCoArenaUndisclosedKirin and Introspect both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTrueFoundryEarly-stageKirin and TrueFoundry Agent Gateway both serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBroadcomPublicKirin and AgentMinder do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded; ships hardware and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageKirin and AssemblyAI Guardrails do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVectaraEarly-stageKirin and Vectara Guardian Agents both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGSGetReal SecurityEarly-stageKirin and GetReal Protect both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecagonLate-stageKirin and Personal Agent Gateway both list guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrestaLate-stageKirin and Agent Operations Center both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareCCognigyAcquiredKirin and Cognigy Insights both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; Cognigy is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareAAmazonPublicKirin and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use and watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLiteLLMEarly-stageKirin and LiteLLM Lens both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRilletLate-stageKirin and Command Center both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareZZoomPublicKirin and Zoom Quality Management both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareCAConcentrate AIUndisclosedKirin and LLM Gateway both list data security; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareZZendeskLate-stageKirin and Zendesk Quality Assurance both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.Shared product typeComparePPhenomLate-stageKirin and Phenom AppTrail both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareHHoneywellPublicKirin and Honeywell Cyber Proactive Defense both list threat detection and response; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoreWeavePublicKirin and CoreWeave Agent Lens both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYellow.aiUndisclosedKirin and Analyze both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareFForethoughtAcquiredKirin and Forethought QA Agent both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; Forethought is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareVSVerint SystemsAcquiredKirin and Verint Quality Bot both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareTTypefaceUndisclosedKirin and Typeface Brand Graph both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHAll Hands AIEarly-stageKirin and Agent Control Plane both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePParloaLate-stageKirin and Parloa Lens both list guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNnRouterUndisclosedKirin and nRouter LLM Gateway both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFinAcquiredKirin and Fin Analyze both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; Knostic's scale not recorded; Fin is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareOOrq.aiUndisclosedKirin and AI Gateway both list guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRequestyEarly-stageKirin and Requesty AI Gateway both list guardrails and safety; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareAAnthropicLate-stageKirin and Claude Security both list guardrails and safety; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksLate-stageKirin and Lakewatch both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphoreLate-stageKirin and Communication Recording Agent both list data security; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDXUndisclosedKirin and AI Code Insights both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareAAshrUndisclosedKirin and Ashr Evals both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareHHueUndisclosedKirin and Hue both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareCCognitionLate-stageKirin and Devin Security Swarm both list threat detection and response; Knostic's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVEVolcano EngineUndisclosedKirin and LLM Application Firewall (大模型应用防火墙) do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; both also serve buyers who need to block unsafe AI inputs and unapproved AI use; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLALiquid AIUndisclosedKirin and ShieldFlow do comparable work on data security and guardrails and safety; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPapayaUndisclosedKirin and Papaya both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareMMicro1UndisclosedKirin and Cortex both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; scale not recorded for either; ships data service rather than the same layer.Different layerCompare

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Company disclosure · 26 Oct 2026

"we’re also receiving a $5 million investment"

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Founded

Company disclosure · 26 Oct 2026

"Knostic was founded in 2023 by veteran cybersecurity experts"

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Description

Official documentation · 26 Oct 2026

Company page: "Discover and secure agents, coding assistants, and their supply chain"

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