When should you choose Capsule Security?

You want every agent mapped in one security graph across builders and coding tools. You want to query agents, policies and findings through a GraphQL API. An assistant that acts only with consent fits your policy. Graded by Agentic Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials. No vendor pays for placement.

When should you choose Operant AI?

Runtime control must run in your VPC, on premises or air gapped. Employee AI tools need the same inline control as your own agents. Sensitive data should be redacted inline. Graded by Agentic Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials. No vendor pays for placement.

How much do Capsule Security and Operant AI cost?

Capsule Security: Contact sales. Operant AI: Contact sales. Three plans (Pro, Scale, Enterprise) without published prices.. Graded by Agentic Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials. No vendor pays for placement.

Agentic Index

Capsule Security vs Operant AI (2026)

Both vendors last verified September 28, 2026

Capsule Security and Operant AI both sit at runtime between AI agents and the tools they call, and they differ on access and on where they run. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Capsule, out of stealth in April 2026, discovers agents across builders, coding tools and enterprise platforms, maps them in an agent security graph, blocks unsafe tool calls inline, and offers a Guardian Agent assistant that acts only with consent, plus a GraphQL API. Operant traces each run from prompt to tool calls to memory, makes inline allow, block or redact decisions across agents, MCP servers and employee AI tools, and deploys in a VPC, on premises or air gapped on its Enterprise plan. Its Pro, Scale and Enterprise plans are quoted on request, as is a trial. Capsule adds whitebox red teaming of the customer's own agents and never fires a mutating tool without a person's approval, while Operant's VPC, on premises and air gapped options have no match at Capsule. Choose Capsule for an agent security graph you can query by API. Choose Operant for air gapped runtime control.

On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Capsule Security nor Operant AI clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Capsule Security does not document workflow orchestration in full; Operant AI does not document workflow orchestration in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 25 of the 86 vendors in the lane clear it. See the AI SOC ranking

On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, neither Capsule Security nor Operant AI clears the bar, which asks for all five production contract capabilities documented in full. Capsule Security does not document deployment and data residency in full, nor model flexibility and routing; Operant AI does not document model flexibility and routing in full, nor testing, debugging and optimization. 33 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Capsule Security and Operant AI are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

At a glance

Capsule Security

Category: Security / SOC agent
Entry price: Contact sales
Free or trial: No platform trial published. The open source ClawGuard enforcer is free
Pricing confidence: contact only

Operant AI

Category: Security / SOC agent
Entry price: Contact sales. Three plans (Pro, Scale, Enterprise) without published prices.
Free or trial: Trial available on request; Woodpecker open source
Pricing confidence: contact only

Keep exploring

Choose Capsule Security if

You want every agent mapped in one security graph across builders and coding tools.
You want to query agents, policies and findings through a GraphQL API.
An assistant that acts only with consent fits your policy.

Choose Operant AI if

Runtime control must run in your VPC, on premises or air gapped.
Employee AI tools need the same inline control as your own agents.
Sensitive data should be redacted inline.

Feature	C Capsule Security	O Operant AI
Action & orchestration
Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools.
Capsule SecurityIntegrations & Tool Calling Runtime intervention interrupts unsafe actions in the customer's agent platforms before they execute, at the tool call boundary, and the CrowdStrike Falcon integration writes to NGSIEM (its one write scope). Most other connectors are read only discovery (Falcon hosts, the Claude Compliance API). Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/guides/crowdstrike-falconread 2026-09-28
Operant AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Agent Protector covers the MCP ecosystem, CrewAI, Microsoft Foundry, AWS AgentCore, the OpenAI Agent SDK, LangGraph, n8n and Vertex AI Agent Builder, and blocks actions outside scope inline. It offers IdP integration and, by tier, SIEM, SOC and SOAR integrations, acting in those outside systems. It finds managed agents and unmanaged ones running in cloud environments, SaaS platforms and development tools, and Endpoint Protector covers coding agents and shadow AI tools on employee devices. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/agent-protector, /platform/pricing and operant.airead 2026-10-05
Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.
Capsule SecurityWorkflow Orchestration Guardian Agent runs multi step work for the security team, exploring the GraphQL schema on demand and assembling context in layers to produce reports. This is a fixed product flow, with no branching the customer configures and no multiple coordinating agents. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/guardian-agent-shipping-a-useful-agentic-experienceread 2026-09-28
Operant AIWorkflow Orchestration The product runs a fixed discover, detect and defend pipeline across Agent Protector, MCP Gateway, AI Gatekeeper and Endpoint Protector. It does not orchestrate the customer's agents or offer a flow the customer builds. SourceOperant AI, operant.airead 2026-10-05
Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools.
Capsule SecurityTriggers & Channel Coverage The fine tuned detector runs inline on every agent step and decides "before a tool call is executed" on each event in the customer's agent platforms, across Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agentforce and the cloud agent builders. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/keeping-ai-agents-on-track-how-capsule-powers-state-of-the-art-rogue-agent-detection-with-nvidia-nemotronread 2026-09-28
Operant AITriggers & Channel Coverage Decisions fire inline without a person. Each agent action, MCP connection and endpoint AI request is allowed, blocked or redacted, with observability data analyzed in real time. The Semantic Firewall makes those allow, block or redact calls based on intent, inline across AI operations. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/agent-protector and operant.airead 2026-10-05
Knowledge & context
Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers.
Capsule SecurityKnowledge Grounding & RAG The Agent Security Graph maps the customer's agents, tools, data sources, skills and actions, and Guardian Agent answers from it by querying the GraphQL schema on demand, a maintained retrieval structure over the customer's own agent estate. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/apis/agentread 2026-09-28
Operant AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Discovery of managed and unmanaged agents, an MCP registry and tool activity graphs of correlations and dependencies map the customer's AI estate, and MCP Gateway adds live visibility across MCP servers, clients and tools. Operant names no retrieval structure that its agents draw on. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/agent-protector and operant.airead 2026-10-05
Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.
Capsule SecurityMemory & State Persistence Guardian Agent has no memory with a stated scope and lifetime. The Agent Security Graph is the knowledge it queries, not agent memory. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/guardian-agent-shipping-a-useful-agentic-experienceread 2026-09-28
Operant AIMemory & State Persistence Operant traces and protects the customer's agent memory stores but gives the agents no memory of its own. Sourceoperant.ai/platform/agent-protectorread 2026-09-28
Control & trust
Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.
Capsule SecurityHuman Oversight & Guardrails Under Guardian Agent's Consent Gate, mutating tools never fire automatically, and a human explicitly approves or rejects each one first, an approval before the agent action commits. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/guardian-agent-shipping-a-useful-agentic-experienceread 2026-09-28
Operant AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Inline decisions are allow, block or redact, with MCP allow and deny lists, agent identity and access enforcement and Intent and Scope Guards. The customer sets these limits, and no step asks a person to approve an agent action before it goes through. Agent ScopeGuard lets the customer define the data sources an agent can reach, the APIs it can call and the workflows it can start. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai and /platform/agent-protectorread 2026-10-05
Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.
Capsule SecuritySecurity, Identity & Governance Capsule offers SSO over SAML 2.0 or OIDC with Entra group to role mapping, built in and custom tenant roles, and SCIM provisioning, and it reports SOC 2. The SOC 2 type and report are not detailed. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/guides/ms-entra-id-sso-configread 2026-09-28
Operant AISecurity, Identity & Governance Every plan includes IdP integration and standard audit logs, SSO and SCIM come on Enterprise, and the company is SOC 2 Type II compliant. Agent Protector enforces zero trust for every agent identity, checking every action every time, and the Scale plan adds extended retention. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/pricing and /platform/agent-protectorread 2026-10-05
Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.
Capsule SecurityObservability & Auditability Capsule records each governed agent's activity as Session Started, Tool Call, Message and Error events, filterable by date, a per tool call record of the customer's agents that the customer inspects. Guardian Agent's own actions are logged separately with consent attestation. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/guides/agent-managementread 2026-09-28
Operant AIObservability & Auditability Agent Protector traces each agent from the first prompt through tool calls to memory store access, with execution telemetry, activity timelines and tool activity graphs that record the customer's agents tool call by tool call, all analyzed in real time. Standard audit logs come with every plan. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/agent-protector and /platform/pricingread 2026-10-05
Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.
Capsule SecurityDeployment & Data Residency Capsule runs as SaaS, with no named hosting region, region choice, customer environment or on premises option. Its agentless, no proxy integration describes how Capsule connects, not where it runs. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.ioread 2026-09-28
Operant AIDeployment & Data Residency Enterprise customers can run it in their own environment, with VPC, on prem and air gapped options and multi region scaling, alongside the cloud MCP Gateway and private mode operation with automatic redaction. Agent Protector also offers secure enclaves for private agents kept in house. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/pricing and /platform/agent-protectorread 2026-10-05
Solution readiness
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.
Capsule SecurityPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Capsule ships one assistant, Guardian Agent, and the open source ClawGuard enforcer, and the API exposes a policyTemplates catalog. Which policy templates the catalog holds is not published. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/apis/agentread 2026-09-28
Operant AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Prebuilt guardrails and detectors ship with the product. They cover the OWASP LLM Top 10 and about 100 sensitive data types, and include CodeInjectionGuard and Intent and Scope Guards, plus MDM templates. Operant publishes no named catalog of them and offers no prebuilt agents. The product line is Agent Protector, MCP Gateway, AI Gatekeeper, Endpoint Protector and the Semantic Firewall, sold in Pro, Scale and Enterprise tiers. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/pricing and operant.airead 2026-10-05
Platform extensibility
Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys.
Capsule SecurityModel Flexibility & Routing Detection runs on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano models (4B and 30B) fine tuned with LoRA, a single named provider chosen by Capsule, and Guardian Agent's model is not named. The customer has no choice of model. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/keeping-ai-agents-on-track-how-capsule-powers-state-of-the-art-rogue-agent-detection-with-nvidia-nemotronread 2026-09-28
Operant AIModel Flexibility & Routing Operant secures traffic to models from other providers and offers no model choice or routing of its own. AI Gatekeeper protects the customer's APIs and LLMs against unauthorized access and OWASP Top 10 attacks. SourceOperant AI, operant.airead 2026-10-05
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.
Capsule SecurityAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A public GraphQL API reference lists queries over agents, policies, detections, findings, tools and roles and mutations that change the platform's own objects (createPolicy, updatePolicyMode, syncAgent, createNotificationChannel, setIdpGroupRoleMapping). The reference page does not show the base URL or auth scheme. Sourcedocs.capsulesecurity.io/apis/agentread 2026-09-28
Operant AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Enterprise plan includes API and webhooks, and Woodpecker is open source, but Operant publishes no API reference or SDK. The MCP Gateway governs the customer's MCP servers as part of what the product does, not as a way to extend it. The Scale plan adds SIEM, SOC and SOAR integrations. SourceOperant AI, operant.ai/platform/pricingread 2026-10-05
Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.
Capsule SecurityTesting, Debugging & Optimization Whitebox red teaming runs against the customer's own agents, probing their logic, prompts and behavior, and feeds findings into runtime protection. Guardian Agent's evals in Capsule's own release path are the vendor's release practice, and the StepShield result is a vendor benchmark. Sourcecapsulesecurity.ioread 2026-09-28
Operant AITesting, Debugging & Optimization Woodpecker, Operant's open source red teaming CLI, runs experiments against Kubernetes, Docker and cloud applications. It names no tests against the customer's agents and sits outside the paid platform. Operant names no other way to evaluate the customer's agents. Sourcegithub.com/operantai/woodpeckerread 2026-09-28
Specialist automation
Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.
Capsule SecurityBrowser & Computer Use Guardian Agent runs locally inside the user's browser, which is where the product runs, not an agent operating a browser. There is no browser or desktop operation. Sourcecapsulesecurity.io/blog-post/guardian-agent-shipping-a-useful-agentic-experienceread 2026-09-28
Operant AIBrowser & Computer Use The product works at the runtime traffic, gateway and endpoint layer, and Operant names no browser or computer use. Endpoint Protector watches agent loops on employee devices and blocks prompt injection and data exfiltration. SourceOperant AI, operant.airead 2026-10-05

Pricing snapshot

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Pricing	C Capsule Security	O Operant AI
Entry price Lowest public entry point	Contact sales	Contact sales. Three plans (Pro, Scale, Enterprise) without published prices.
Pricing confidence How public the numbers are	Contact only	Contact only
Billing Primary billing axis	—	Plan tier by product coverage and features; units not published.
Variable cost Workload / overage exposure	Low variable cost	Medium variable cost
Free tier / trial Try before you buy	No free tier	No free tierTrial
Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call	Sales call	Sales call
Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked	Sep 28, 2026	Sep 28, 2026

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