Agentic Index

Agentic Index

Equixly vs Parameter (2026)

Equixly and Parameter, the company formerly called Hex Security, both run autonomous pentests of applications and APIs; Equixly centers on continuous API testing, and Parameter reaches into cloud and supply chain attack paths. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Equixly's Agentic AI Hacker is a team of agents on Equixly's own model that pentests APIs and web apps continuously, chains interactions to prove exploitable risk and reruns on each release; it is sold through sales and the Google, Microsoft and Amazon marketplaces. Parameter pentests apps and APIs, traces cloud and supply chain attack paths and reviews pull requests, proving each finding with a working exploit; it publishes three tiers, Single App, Rightsized and Continuous, without prices. On the grid Parameter is Full on prebuilt agents and security and Partial on memory where Equixly is Partial or None. Choose Equixly for continuous API testing on its own model; choose Parameter for broader, documented offensive coverage.

On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Equixly nor Parameter clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents human oversight and guardrails in full. 23 of the 85 vendors in the lane clear it. See the AI SOC ranking

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Equixly and Parameter 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 955 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

Choose Equixly if

  • API security testing is the main need and should rerun on every release.
  • Testing on the vendor's own offensive model appeals to you.
  • Buying through a cloud marketplace helps.

Choose Parameter if

  • Cloud and supply chain attack paths and pull request review are in scope.
  • Every finding should come with a working exploit.
  • Security controls must be documented in full; Parameter is Full on security and Equixly Partial.
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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.

Workflow Orchestration

Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.

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.
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.

Memory & State Persistence

Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.
Control & trust

Human Oversight & Guardrails

Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.

Security, Identity & Governance

RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.

Observability & Auditability

Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.

Deployment & Data Residency

Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.
Solution readiness

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.
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.

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.

Testing, Debugging & Optimization

Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.
Specialist automation

Browser & Computer Use

Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.

Pricing snapshot

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

Pricing
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Entry price

Lowest public entry point

 Contact sales; no public pricing. Request a demo or start a pentest. Also available on cloud cybersecurity marketplaces. Contact for pricing. Three pentest tiers are published without prices: Single App, Rightsized and Continuous.

Pricing confidence

How public the numbers are

 Contact only Contact only

Billing

Primary billing axis

 not disclosed Rightsized tests are scoped from repos, endpoints and roles; Continuous runs a pentest on every deploy.

Variable cost

Workload / overage exposure

 Medium variable cost High 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
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