How much does Operant AI cost?

Three plans without published prices: Pro (Endpoint Protector and Agent Protector monitoring, IdP integration, standard audit logs), Scale (adds inline blocking, auto-redaction, data protection, agent identity and access enforcement, SIEM and SOAR integrations, Cloud MCP Gateway) and Enterprise (all four products, custom detectors, VPC, on-prem or air-gapped, SSO, SCIM, API and webhooks). Pricing through a fit form.

What are the best alternatives to Operant AI?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Operant AI among security and SOC agents are Idira, Horizon3.ai, Okta, Qevlar AI. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Operant AI have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Operant AI publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: 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 th. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Can Operant AI be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Operant AI publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: 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 se. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Operant AI

Also known as: Operant, 3D Runtime Defense, Woodpecker

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Security / SOC agentindependentVerified 2026-09-28

Entry priceContact sales. Three plans (Pro, Scale, Enterprise) without published prices.Full pricing detail

Runtime security for AI agents, MCP servers and employee AI tools, with tracing of each run from prompt to tool calls to memory, inline allow, block or redact decisions, and VPC, on prem or air gapped deployment on Enterprise.

Operant AI sells runtime security for AI applications, agents and the AI tools employees use. Agent Protector discovers managed and unmanaged agents across cloud, SaaS and developer tools, traces each run from the initial prompt through tool calls to memory store access with activity timelines and tool activity graphs, and blocks out of scope actions inline. It covers the MCP ecosystem, CrewAI, Microsoft Foundry, AWS AgentCore, the OpenAI Agent SDK, LangGraph, n8n and Vertex AI Agent Builder.

MCP Gateway keeps a registry of MCP servers, clients and tools with allow and deny lists and access controls, AI Gatekeeper covers AI and API traffic including ghost and zombie APIs, Endpoint Protector covers shadow AI tools, coding agents and MCP clients on employee devices, and a Semantic Firewall makes allow, block or redact decisions inline based on intent. The platform redacts sensitive data automatically and is SOC 2 Type II compliant. Plans run from Pro through Scale to Enterprise, which adds SSO, SCIM, API and webhooks, custom detectors and VPC, on prem or air gapped deployment. Operant also maintains Woodpecker, an open source red teaming CLI.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.operant.ai

Funding status

Independent San Francisco company founded 2020 by Vrajesh Bhavsar (CEO, previously built iPhone security foundations at Apple and founded the ML business unit at ARM), Dr. Priyanka Tembey (CTO), and Ashley Roof; $13.5M total funding including a $10M Series A (Sep 2024) co-led by SineWave Ventures and Felicis, with board members Patricia Muoio (SineWave, former NSA/DoD) and Nancy Wang (Felicis, former AWS Data Protection GM); ~43 employees; the only vendor featured across six Gartner AI security reports including the AI TRiSM Market Guide, API Protection Market Guide, and MCP Gateways Innovation Insight

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

runtime protection of AI applications and agents from infra to APIsagent discovery, intent analysis, and least-permissioned access control (Agent Protector)MCP ecosystem security via MCP Gatewayinline data loss prevention with auto-redaction of PII, PCI, PHI, and secretsopen-source AI red teaming (Woodpecker)

Target customers

security and platform teams running Kubernetes and cloud-native applicationsenterprises deploying custom AI agents on LangGraph, CrewAI, n8n, and ChatGPT Agents SDKfinancial services redrawing trust boundaries for agentic AIAI infrastructure and inference platforms via the Ecosystem Partnership Program

Deployment options

SaaS (cloud MCP Gateway)VPC, on-prem and air-gapped on Enterprisemulti-region scaling on Enterpriseendpoint enforcement through Endpoint Protector

Integrations

Agent frameworks and platforms (MCP ecosystem, CrewAI, Microsoft Foundry, AWS AgentCore, OpenAI Agent SDK, LangGraph, n8n, Vertex AI Agent Builder), IdP integration, SIEM, SOC and SOAR integrations on Scale, and SSO, SCIM, MDM templates, API and webhooks on Enterprise.

In practice

Your teams run agents in LangGraph, CrewAI and AWS AgentCore that no one has inventoried. Operant's Agent Protector discovers them, traces each tool call and blocks actions outside their scope.

Developers connect MCP servers to coding agents without review. MCP Gateway applies allow and deny lists and access controls to every MCP server, client and tool.

Patient or card data could leak through an AI app. Operant detects about 100 sensitive data types and redacts them inline before they leave.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://www.operant.ai/company/about https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/05/3233044/0/en/Operant-AI-Launches-Agent-Protector-The-First-Real-Time-Agentic-Security-Solution-Enabling-Safe-AI-Agent-Innovation-at-Scale.html https://www.operant.ai/platform/3d-runtime-defense https://cybermagazine.com/globenewswire/3260450

Agentic Index coverage score

7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
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	Partial
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
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
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
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Partial
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	Full
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	Full
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
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
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
Deployment & Data Residency	Full
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
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Partial
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
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
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
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
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	Partial
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	Not documented
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
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
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

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Product updates

October 15, 2026·Human approval / guardrailsPartially Verified

Agentic Commerce Defense in Operant's Agent Protector evaluates each agent payment attempt over the x402, MPP and AP2 protocols before it is forwarded. The decision weighs the agent's task, the paid tool call, the MCP server, the payment destination, the amount and the organization's commercial policy.

Bears on: Security / enterprise

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October 1, 2026·Human approval / guardrailsVerified

Operant's detection and enforcement now reach Microsoft 365. A Purview integration takes in Copilot prompts, responses and tool calls across every Copilot surface, Agent Protector checks each tool call and write inside agents built on the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and third party assistants embedded in Office on the web can be blocked by prompt or by plugin using Purview sensitivity labels.

Bears on: Integrations

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Pricing

Contact sales. Three plans (Pro, Scale, Enterprise) without published prices.

Plan tier by product coverage and features; units not published.

Trial available

What is public

Plan names and feature splits are public: Pro (monitoring, IdP, standard audit logs), Scale (inline blocking, auto-redaction, data protection, SIEM and SOAR, Cloud MCP Gateway), Enterprise (all four products, custom detectors, VPC, on-prem, air-gapped, SSO, SCIM, API). No prices.

Variable cost rationale

Inference, not stated by the vendor: cost likely grows with the agents, endpoints and MCP servers covered.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Trial available on request; Woodpecker open source

Key ambiguities

No prices or billing units on the pricing page.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-28

Official pricing page

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Alternatives to Operant AI

The closest documented capability profiles to Operant AI among security and SOC agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Idira8.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
Horizon3.ai8.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
Okta8.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails and APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
Qevlar AI8.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
HiddenLayer9.0 / 14Adds documented Testing, Debugging & Optimization
XBOW9.0 / 14Adds documented Browser & Computer Use

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