Agentic Index
ThreatModeler vs Zeron (2026)
Two of the strongest documented cards in the security lane, 12 and 11.5 of 14, working opposite ends of the risk lifecycle.
ThreatModeler builds, maintains and reports on threat models grounded in a persistent Secure Design Graph, covering applications, cloud, operational technology and AI agents at enterprise scale with a deterministic framework, MCP integration and bring your own AI. Zeron is cyber risk intelligence with a posture and quantification suite, plus ZAK, an open source Agent Development Kit for building and governing autonomous security agents with policy guardrails. Design time threat modelling against risk quantification plus a toolkit for building your own agents.
Choose ThreatModeler if
- Threat modelling is a practice you already run and doing it manually does not scale.
- Coverage across operational technology and AI agents, not just applications, is required.
- A deterministic framework with bring your own AI is the trust model you need.
Choose Zeron if
- Quantifying cyber risk in business terms is what your board is asking for.
- An open source Agent Development Kit means you build agents rather than buy them.
- Policy guardrails on agents you build yourself is the governance you need.
| At a glance | ThreatModeler | Zeron |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | Not public; quoted through enterprise engagement after a solutions engineering session, scaled to applications, users, and modules | Contact sales (ZAK ADK is free and open source) |
| Free / trial | Book a session with a solutions engineer; no public free tier | ZAK Agent Development Kit is free and open source (Apache 2.0); platform via demo and early access |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | T ThreatModeler |
Z Zeron |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
Partial | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | T ThreatModeler |
Z Zeron |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not public; quoted through enterprise engagement after a solutions engineering session, scaled to applications, users, and modules | Contact sales (ZAK ADK is free and open source) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
enterprise subscription scaled to applications, users, and modules | modular products (CRPM, Vendor Pulse, Insure Pulse); ZAK open source |
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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 |
No free tier
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |