When should you choose Capsule Security?

Agents already in production need inline blocking of unsafe tool calls. Every tool call an agent makes should be logged, behind SSO and SCIM. You want an API into the agent security graph. 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 Trent AI?

Risk should be fixed in code before release, with pull requests opened and verified. Developers should get findings inside their coding tools. The scanner must run in your VPC or on premises, on a model you choose. 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 Trent AI cost?

Capsule Security: Contact sales. Trent AI: Not public; tailored proposal on request. 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 Trent AI (2026)

Both vendors last verified September 28, 2026

Capsule Security and Trent AI both secure AI agents, from different sides of the build. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Capsule works at runtime. It discovers agents across builders, coding tools and enterprise platforms, maps them in an agent security graph and blocks unsafe tool calls inline, with a consent gated Guardian Agent and a GraphQL API. Trent works at development time. Its four specialist agents scan code, cloud and AI agents, prioritize exploitable risk, open fix pull requests and verify them, reaching developers through a hosted MCP server and plugin, and pricing is tailored by proposal. Capsule adds SSO over SAML or OIDC with SCIM, records each agent session's tool calls and errors, and red teams the customer's own agents. Trent runs in public cloud, the customer's VPC or on premises, on frontier, open source or private models, including the customer's own. Choose Capsule to guard agents in production. Choose Trent to fix risk before it ships.

On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Capsule Security nor Trent AI clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Capsule Security does not document workflow orchestration in full; Trent AI documents one of the five in full. 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 Trent 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; Trent AI documents two of the five in full. 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 Trent 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

Trent AI

Category: Security / SOC agent
Entry price: Not public; tailored proposal on request
Free or trial: No free tier or trial published; request pricing
Pricing confidence: contact only

Keep exploring

Choose Capsule Security if

Agents already in production need inline blocking of unsafe tool calls.
Every tool call an agent makes should be logged, behind SSO and SCIM.
You want an API into the agent security graph.

Choose Trent AI if

Risk should be fixed in code before release, with pull requests opened and verified.
Developers should get findings inside their coding tools.
The scanner must run in your VPC or on premises, on a model you choose.

Feature	C Capsule Security	T Trent 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
Trent AIIntegrations & Tool Calling The Remediation Agent opens pull requests and adjusts configurations through a GitHub App connection, and fixes can also go to the customer's coding assistant as a ready to run prompt. GitHub is the only write connector named. The Security Connectors pull findings from Semgrep, Notion, Linear and SARIF tools and are read only, so Trent reads those sources and writes nothing back. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIWorkflow Orchestration Four specialist agents divide the work. They are a Threat Scanning Agent, an Analysis Agent that classifies signal from noise and prioritizes by business impact, a Remediation Agent and a Security Posture Agent. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AITriggers & Channel Coverage Scanning of code, cloud and agents is continuous by Trent's account, and rescans update the findings. No event, webhook or schedule that starts the agents is named, and the plugin and MCP tools run when the developer's assistant calls them. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG A context layer built by Trent covers the customer's application code, infrastructure code, configurations, agents and automations. Its Inventory and Architecture Review maps software, services, agents and data flows, later rescans keep that map current, and the agents reason over it. Trent does not say how the context layer is stored. Sourcetrent.airead 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIMemory & State Persistence The scanning agent, by Trent's account, learns where to look and reduces noise over time. The context layer holds knowledge about the customer's estate, and Trent names no agent memory with a stated scope and lifetime. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 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
Trent AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Users can challenge and regrade a severity in place, edit draft requirements and make task decisions. Trent pitches the product as "Built to Be Corrected, Not Blindly Trusted", and fixes arrive as pull requests or prompts for the developer, so the decision stays with the team. The merge gate belongs to GitHub, and Trent names no approval step of its own that holds an agent action. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AISecurity, Identity & Governance Organization workspaces carry role based access control. Admins manage members and roles, create GitHub App connections, and view and revoke any member's API keys. Members run analyses and plan remediation. A trust center sits at trust.trent.ai, and no attestation is named outside it. Sourcetrent.ai/blog/organization-workspaces-role-based-access-controlread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIObservability & Auditability Every finding links back to its evidence with an explanation of how Trent graded it. A Report changelog shows what moved after each rescan, and fixes are confirmed with an audit trail. Together these explain the agents' verdicts, but Trent names no run trace of the agents' own steps. Posture tracking reports on the customer's estate, not on the agents. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIDeployment & Data Residency Customers can run Trent in public cloud, in their own VPC or on premises, wherever their security and compliance posture demands. The hosted MCP service has separate US and EU endpoints at mcp.trent.ai and mcp.eu.trent.ai. Sourcetrent.airead 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Four prebuilt agents ship with Trent, each with its own job. They are Threat Scanning, Analysis, Remediation and Security Posture. A plugin for Claude Code and Codex CLI packages review, threat modeling and remediation tracking skills. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIModel Flexibility & Routing Customers can run Trent with frontier, open source or private models, including their own. No provider list is published. Sourcetrent.airead 2026-09-28
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
Trent AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A hosted MCP server of Trent's own runs at https://mcp.trent.ai/mcp and https://mcp.eu.trent.ai/mcp. Users sign in through the browser, or use one API key for a remote connection. The server comes through an MIT licensed plugin for Claude Code and Codex CLI. Its tool list is not published, and Trent names no REST API or SDK. Sourcegithub.com/trnt-ai/trent-agent-pluginread 2026-09-28
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
Trent AITesting, Debugging & Optimization The Remediation Agent validates that fixes work, and the Posture Agent benchmarks against standards. Both test the customer's code and estate, not Trent's agents. Trent names no harness, scored test cases or quality gate for the agents. Sourcetrent.ai/productread 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
Trent AIBrowser & Computer Use Trent reads repositories, uploaded code and live applications by URL, and works through MCP and GitHub. It names no browser or desktop operation by an agent. Sourcetrent.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-28

Pricing snapshot

Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.

Pricing	C Capsule Security	T Trent AI
Entry price Lowest public entry point	Contact sales	Not public; tailored proposal on request
Pricing confidence How public the numbers are	Contact only	Contact only
Billing Primary billing axis	—	tailored proposal; basis not disclosed
Variable cost Workload / overage exposure	Low variable cost	Medium variable cost
Free tier / trial Try before you buy	No free tier	No free tier
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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