Compare Akto vs. Astra API Security Platform

Engineered for peak performance and efficient resource use, KrakenD can manage a staggering 70k requests per second on just one instance. Its stateless build ensures hassle-free scalability, sidelining complications like database upkeep or node synchronization. In terms of features, KrakenD is a jack-of-all-trades. It accommodates multiple protocols and API standards, offering granular access control, data shaping, and caching capabilities. A standout feature is its Backend For Frontend pattern, which consolidates various API calls into a single response, simplifying client interactions. On the security front, KrakenD is OWASP-compliant and data-agnostic, streamlining regulatory adherence. Operational ease comes via its declarative setup and robust third-party tool integration. With its open-source community edition and transparent pricing model, KrakenD is the go-to API Gateway for organizations that refuse to compromise on performance or scalability.

Orca Security is the pioneer of agentless cloud security that is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security possible for enterprises moving to and scaling in the cloud with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model. The Orca Cloud Security Platform delivers the world's most comprehensive coverage and visibility of risks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

Aikido is the all-in-one security platform for development teams to secure their complete stack, from code to cloud. Aikido centralizes all code and cloud security scanners in one place. Aikido offers a range of powerful scanners including static code analysis (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), container image scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning. Aikido integrates AI-powered auto-fixing features, reducing manual work by automatically generating pull requests to resolve vulnerabilities and security issues. It also provides customizable alerts, real-time vulnerability monitoring, and runtime protection, enabling teams to secure their applications and infrastructure seamlessly.

Cloudflare is the foundation of your infrastructure, applications, teams, and software. Cloudflare protects and ensures the reliability and security of your external-facing resources like websites, APIs, applications, and other web services. It protects your internal resources, such as behind-the firewall applications, teams, devices, and devices. It is also your platform to develop globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, applications, and other channels are key to doing business with customers and suppliers. It is essential that these resources are reliable, secure, and performant as the world shifts online. Cloudflare for Infrastructure provides a complete solution that enables this for everything connected to the Internet. Your internal teams can rely on behind-the-firewall apps and devices to support their work. Remote work is increasing rapidly and is putting a strain on many organizations' VPNs and other hardware solutions.

Graylog is the AI-powered SIEM and log management platform built to help security and IT operations teams work faster, stay focused, and stay in control. It brings together all your event data in one place so teams can detect real threats quickly, investigate efficiently, and manage data costs predictably—without compromise. Graylog’s explainable AI turns noise into clarity, highlighting what matters most and guiding analysts through consistent, confident response steps. Its open, flexible architecture adapts to any environment, empowering organizations to scale and evolve without being locked into rigid systems or unpredictable pricing. With Graylog Security, Enterprise, API Security, and Open, more than 60,000 organizations worldwide rely on Graylog to deliver faster insight, simpler operations, and a smarter path to SIEM without compromise.

Astra's Pentest is a comprehensive solution for penetration testing. It includes an intelligent vulnerability scanner and in-depth manual pentesting. The automated scanner performs 10000+ security checks, including security checks for all CVEs listed in the OWASP top 10 and SANS 25. It also conducts all required tests to comply with ISO 27001 and HIPAA. Astra provides an interactive pentest dashboard which allows users to visualize vulnerability analysis, assign vulnerabilities to team members, collaborate with security experts, and to collaborate with security experts. The integrations with CI/CD platforms and Jira are also available if users don't wish to return to the dashboard each time they want to use it or assign a vulnerability for a team member.

Parasoft's mission is to provide automated testing solutions and expertise that empower organizations to expedite delivery of safe and reliable software. A powerful unified C and C++ test automation solution for static analysis, unit testing and structural code coverage, Parasoft C/C++test helps satisfy compliance with industry functional safety and security requirements for embedded software systems.

You know that you could be testing more to catch bugs earlier, but QA testing can take a lot of time, effort and resources to do it right. MuukTest can get growing engineering teams up to 95% coverage of end-to-end tests in just 3 months. Our QA experts create, manage, maintain, and update E2E tests on the MuukTest Platform for your web, API, and mobile apps at record speed. We begin exploratory and negative tests after achieving 100% regression coverage within 8 weeks to uncover bugs and increase coverage. The time you spend on development is reduced by managing your testing frameworks, scripts, libraries and maintenance. We also proactively identify flaky tests and false test results to ensure the accuracy of your tests. Early and frequent testing allows you to detect errors in the early stages your development lifecycle. This reduces the burden of technical debt later on.

Engineering teams shipping with AI have a new bottleneck: validation. Code output has accelerated. Quality hasn't. Checksum closes the gap. Checksum is a continuous quality platform with a suite of AI agents that handle testing end-to-end, at every stage of the development lifecycle. Where most tools wait for a human to trigger them, Checksum runs autonomously in the background, generating tests, executing them, and repairing failures without manual intervention. Seventy percent of test failures are resolved automatically through real-time auto-recovery. The platform covers every layer: end-to-end UI flows via Playwright, API endpoint chains, and targeted CI tests scoped to exactly what changed in a PR. All tests land as real code in your repository and are delivered as standard Playwright, owned by your team. Checksum is fine-tuned on 1.5+ million test runs and integrates natively with Cursor, Claude Code, and 100+ AI coding agents. Type /checksum and your coding agent's output gets tested before it ever reaches review. Generation and healing happen on Checksum's cloud infrastructure which means no LLM tokens consumed, no local resources required. The result: test suites that stay green as the product evolves, fewer regressions reaching production, and release confidence that scales alongside AI output.

Chainguard Containers provide a trusted set of minimal, zero-CVE container images with a top-tier CVE remediation SLA—addressing critical vulnerabilities within 7 days, and high, medium, and low within 14—enabling teams to build and deploy software more confidently. As modern development workflows and CI/CD pipelines depend on secure, up-to-date containers for cloud-native applications, Chainguard offers streamlined images built entirely from source in a hardened, secure build environment. Designed for both engineering and security stakeholders, Chainguard Containers reduce the manual overhead of managing vulnerabilities, improve application resilience by shrinking the attack surface, and accelerate go-to-market by simplifying alignment with compliance standards and customer security expectations.