Agentic Index
Portal26 vs WitnessAI (2026)
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Portal26 and WitnessAI both govern how an enterprise uses AI tools and agents. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
WitnessAI runs inline at the network layer, routing, blocking or redacting prompts and responses by intent, governing agents at the tool call and MCP server level and tying each agent action to a person. On AWS Marketplace its Agentic Visibility costs $24 per agent a year with a 2,500 agent minimum. Portal26 discovers AI tools and agents, records prompts, responses and tool calls, throttles or stops runaway agents with Agentic Token Control, and answers questions about AI activity through its Recon assistant, and it sells through a demo. WitnessAI adds Witness Attack, automated red teaming of the customer's models before deployment, along with single tenant isolation and keys the customer controls. Choose Portal26 to see and cap agent activity. Choose WitnessAI for inline enforcement at a public price.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Portal26 nor WitnessAI clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents workflow orchestration in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 25 of the 86 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. Portal26 and WitnessAI 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
Choose Portal26 if
- You want a record of every agent prompt, response and tool call you can question in plain language.
- Runaway agents should be throttled or stopped by token use.
- You want plain language answers about AI activity across the company.
Choose WitnessAI if
- Policy should be enforced inline at the network layer, by intent.
- Models should be red teamed for prompt injection before they reach production.
- A public per agent price helps procurement.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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Portal26Integrations & Tool Calling Agents are discovered across laptops, hyperscaler environments and SaaS platforms in a continuously updated inventory, teams can use their existing device management systems to block or remove high risk agents, and safeguards automatically throttle, pause or terminate runaway agents, so Portal26 acts on the customer's agents through connected systems. Recon sits across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity as well as shadow AI tools. The connectors themselves are not listed. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/agentic-ai-security-and-value-realization and /reconread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIIntegrations & Tool Calling Named network connectors cover Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Netskope, Fortinet and F5, alongside SIEM and XDR integration. Coverage extends to Windows 11 Copilot, Office 365 and other desktop AI apps, and enforcement works at the tool call and MCP server level, with an MCP Catalog that scores known tools. Sourcewitness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wit-secure-ai-enablement-platform-op.pdfread 2026-09-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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Portal26Workflow Orchestration Recon, Portal26's own assistant, answers questions about AI activity, and when a new regulation lands it identifies where the customer falls short, builds the detection rules to close the gap, watches how they perform and moves them to full enforcement. The flow is fixed by the product. Portal26 names no flow of several steps the customer configures and no coordination between agents. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/reconread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIWorkflow Orchestration WitnessAI runs a fixed pipeline over the customer's AI traffic that intercepts, analyzes and enforces. It ships no agents of its own, and customers do not configure flows across several agents. Sourcewitness.ai/controlread 2026-09-28 |
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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. |
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Portal26Triggers & Channel Coverage More than 35 risk detectors watch AI activity in real time for compliance violations, data exposure and security threats, and adaptive safeguards automatically throttle, pause or terminate runaway agents when limits are crossed, so events start the work without anyone launching it. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai and /agentic-ai-security-and-value-realizationread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAITriggers & Channel Coverage Enforcement runs inline on every prompt, response and tool call crossing the network, without a user launching it, so each interaction's arrival starts the work. Sourcewitness.ai/controlread 2026-09-28 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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Portal26Knowledge Grounding & RAG Recon "turns every AI interaction across your organization into an answer," querying the prompts, usage and interactions Portal26 records across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity, shadow AI included. All of the organization's AI usage data, every tool, department and agent, is kept in one place, and Recon answers plain language questions from it with evidence. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/reconread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Observe detects AI apps against a catalog of 4,000+ and shows which agents are running and what external tools they connect to, and the MCP Catalog scores known tools against OWASP and CVE risk classes. That is a named inventory plus WitnessAI's own knowledge, with no retrieval structure over the customer's estate for its agents. Sourcewitness.ai/observeread 2026-09-28 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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Portal26Memory & State Persistence Recon searches the AI activity record. Portal26 describes no memory that Recon keeps between questions. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/recon; portal26.airead 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIMemory & State Persistence There is no agent memory with a scope and lifetime. The agent and MCP inventory is a catalog of what runs, and the conversation and execution record is an audit trail, so neither is memory the agents keep. Sourcewitness.ai/observeread 2026-09-28 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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Portal26Human Oversight & Guardrails Policy based limits at the agent, workflow or organization level, and safeguards that throttle, pause or terminate runaway agents before costs spiral, are constraints the customer sets on its own agents. Teams can also create, distribute and manage AI policy and train users on it. Portal26 names no step that holds an agent action for a person to approve. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/agentic-ai-security-and-value-realization and portal26.airead 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Policies route, block or redact prompts and responses, and allow lists of approved MCP servers and tools are enforced at the tool call and MCP server level. There is no step to approve or confirm an agent's action before it commits. Sourcewitness.ai/controlread 2026-09-28 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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Portal26Security, Identity & Governance The platform carries SOC 2 Type 2, NIST and FIPS 140-2 badges, and Portal26 calls it "NIST, SOC2-Certified". Audits and forensics run on a transaction vault with NIST certification. Portal26 names no SSO, role model or console audit log. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai and /generative-ai-trism-platformread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAISecurity, Identity & Governance SOC 2 Type I and Type II badges sit in the footer, and the datasheet names Role Based Access Control, with a VIP privacy mode governing who can see executive conversations. WitnessAI does not say whether it supports SSO, and its documentation portal is password protected. Sourcewitness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wit-secure-ai-enablement-platform-op.pdfread 2026-09-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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Portal26Observability & Auditability For each discovered agent, the record holds its name, model and users, the "volume of tool calls (MCP) and other A2A calls and conversations" and "the exact prompts and responses passing between agent and AI model." The customer can inspect every exchange of its agents, audit trails for compliance and investigations sit in a transaction vault, and token use is tracked for each agent. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/agentic-ai-security-and-value-realization and portal26.airead 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIObservability & Auditability Agent state and execution commands are captured at runtime, and every agent action maps to a human identity. Every blocked tool call generates an audit record that names the user and agent along with the tool and rule, and prompts, responses and agentic activity are visualized for each interaction. The result is a record of each tool call the customer's agents make. Sourcewitness.ai/resources/witnessai-raises-58-million-for-global-expansion-and-announces-new-ways-to-secure-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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Portal26Deployment & Data Residency Portal26 is SaaS, with a 30 minute activation and what it calls 72 hours to ROI. No hosting region is published, and Portal26 names no region choice or option to run in the customer's own environment. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai and /generative-ai-trism-platformread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIDeployment & Data Residency Single tenant isolation and customer controlled encryption are offered, with "multi-region deployment" but no named region, customer environment or way to choose. The AWS Marketplace listing gives SaaS delivery, and WitnessAI describes no on premises, cloud sandbox or VPC option. The documentation portal is password protected. Sourcewitness.ai/productread 2026-09-28 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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Portal26Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Portal26 sells governance modules, among them shadow AI discovery, intent and use case discovery, risk management, audit and forensics, policy management, agentic AI management, license intelligence, value realization and prompt protection, plus one assistant, Recon. Portal26 describes no prebuilt agents, templates or named policy packs. SourcePortal26, portal26.airead 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Customers assemble policies for each department and role, and the MCP Catalog is vendor reference data for building allow lists. No catalog of prebuilt policies or agents is published. Sourcewitness.ai/controlread 2026-09-28 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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Portal26Model Flexibility & Routing Portal26 governs the models its customers use and records the underlying model of each discovered agent. It does not name the model behind Recon or say whether customers can choose one. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai/agentic-ai-security-and-value-realization and /recon; portal26.airead 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIModel Flexibility & Routing Admins set a routing policy, which WitnessAI pitches as "Route AI requests from employees and agents based on risk, cost, and purpose. Direct sensitive queries to secure internal models." No model list, named provider or selection surface is shown, and the documentation portal is password protected. Sourcewitness.ai/productread 2026-09-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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Portal26APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility No API, SDK or MCP server for building on Portal26 is published, and Recon works inside the product with no separate app. Portal26 observes the MCP traffic of the customer's agents. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai, /recon and /generative-ai-trism-platformread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The datasheet lists API integration to connect to existing analytics and security systems, but no API reference or coverage can be read, because docs.witness.ai is password protected. The portal exists, but what it covers is not public. Sourcewitness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/wit-secure-ai-enablement-platform-op.pdfread 2026-09-28 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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Portal26Testing, Debugging & Optimization Audits, forensics and usage benchmarking report on how AI is used, and Recon can probe for the gaps a breach would exploit and correct the customer's AI policies. Portal26 names no red teaming or scored testing of the customer's agents or of Recon itself. Portal26's own figures include 200% more shadow AI discovery than legacy SWGs and DLP, up to 40% less AI spend waste and up to 75% faster AI adoption. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai and /reconread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAITesting, Debugging & Optimization Witness Attack runs automated red teaming against the customer's models before production deployment, including prompt injection, multi-step jailbreaks and multimodal exploits, so the customer's own AI is tested before it ships. The stated targets are models; red teaming of agents is not mentioned. Sourcewitness.ai/protectread 2026-09-28 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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Portal26Browser & Computer Use On laptops, in hyperscaler environments and in SaaS, Portal26 watches AI use and does not operate those systems. It describes no agent operating a browser or desktop. SourcePortal26, portal26.ai and /agentic-ai-security-and-value-realizationread 2026-10-06 |
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WitnessAIBrowser & Computer Use Coverage of Windows 11 Copilot, Office 365 and desktop AI apps is monitoring of other applications, not an agent using a browser or a computer. Sourcewitness.ai/productread 2026-09-28 |
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Pricing snapshot
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not public. Portal26 is an enterprise AI TRiSM platform sold through a demo and sales motion, with a zero deployment option that turns on through existing security vendors. | AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract for WitnessAI Agentic Visibility at $24 per agent per year with a 2,500-agent minimum ($60,000 a year, about $5,000 a month). |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
not disclosed | Per user and per agent on annual 12-month contracts, with a flat WitnessProtect contract and a usage dimension for true-ups, on AWS Marketplace. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
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