2 categories · RankedAkto
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API security platforms | Security operations | 2% | 13 of 93 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% | |
| AI security platforms | Security operations | 2% | 22 of 233 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Akto across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Prompt Security (SentinelOne) and Akto are top recommendations” Mistral Small · AI security · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The Best Open-Source API Security Platform: Akto” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · budget prompt · first choice
“Akto (API Discovery & Protection) ... Best for: Teams that want discovery + protection in one place with a lighter footprint” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API security · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“For a free starting point, Akto's open-source tool ships 1,000+ security tests.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · API security · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akto, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akto was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 24 of the 24 answers that named Akto and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-nine of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Akto came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
akto.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Akto takes 2% of first choices and Aikido Security takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“akto”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 21 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 978 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 853 · 9 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,396
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 24 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 24 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 486 | 97 | 2026-10-02 | DAST, DLP | |
| Conference or event | 75 | 6 | 2026-10-02 | DAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 57 | 1 | 2026-10-02 | DAST, SAST | |
| Comparison | 47 | 17 | 2026-10-02 | AI security | |
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-27 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 2 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 2 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2026-06-30 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-02Agentic ai security toolkit blog
- 2026-10-02Akto for homegrown apps blog
- 2026-10-02Claude mythos security toolkit blog
- 2026-10-02State of agentic ai security 2025 blog
- 2026-10-02Mcp and ai agent security conference conference or event
- 2026-10-02Agentic release jul sept25 blog
Events in person
- August 1, 2026 to August 6, 2026Meet Akto Team at Black Hat USA 2026Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, United States · exhibited
- March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026Meet Akto Team at RSAC 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco · exhibited
As the event pages on akto.io state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page akto.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name DAST (36); 3 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow Akto
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Akto is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- #1 AI Agent Security Solution for Modern AI Security Teams
- For
- Modern AI Security Teams
- Price stated
- usage based Enterprise-grade pricing akto.io/pricing
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Akto's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: akto.io, akto.io/pricing, trust.akto.io, akto.io/platform-tour, akto.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Akto's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Akto, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akto by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Akto is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akto, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.