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API Security Platform for Modern Appsec teams

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Akto - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Akto overview

What is Akto?

Akto is a leading API security platform trusted by over 1,000 application security teams worldwide. Designed for modern appsec and product security teams, Akto enables organizations to build enterprise-grade API security programs throughout their DevSecOps pipeline.

Its comprehensive suite includes API discovery, sensitive data and PII exposure detection, API security testing, CI/CD integration, and continuous security posture management. Akto provides deep authentication and authorization testing, monitors API changes, and offers the largest API security test library.

Recognized by Forbes, Nasdaq, and Gartner®, Akto is your all-in-one solution to discover APIs, find sensitive data, test vulnerabilities, and prioritize critical findings—ensuring complete DevSecOps coverage.

Akto is also a High performer in API Security and DAST Categories by G2 and has 4.7 overall rating by customers on Gartner Peer Insights.

Key benefits of using Akto

Key features of Akto includes:

1. API Discovery: Continuously discover your complete API attack surface across 1000s of apps - Internal, Public, and Third Party APIs, sensitive, zombie, and shadow APIs, login APIs, password APIs, REST, GraphQL, gRPC APIs
2. API Security Testing: Akto offers a one-stop shift-left API scanning solution, providing extensive coverage of the OWASP API Top 10, authentication, authorization, business logic testing, and more.
3. API Security Posture Management: Continuously monitor security risk of all your APIs and improve your API security posture to prevent breaches and ensure compliance.
4. Sensitive Data Exposure: Use Akto to discover to Identify sensitive, compliance and PII data across all your APIs automatically to ensure no critical information is overlooked.
5. API Security in DevSecOps: By embedding API security directly into your CI/CD pipelines, Akto ensures that vulnerabilities are detected and addressed before deployment without slowing down development.

Starting price

1890flat rate /
per month

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Akto's features

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
API lifecycle management
API security
Application security
Asset Discovery
Automatic scans
Cloud application security
Collaboration tools
Compliance management
Cross-Site scripting
Dashboard
For developers
Issue tracking
Monitoring
Penetration testing
Real-Time analytics
Real-Time data
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time reporting
Reporting & statistics
Reporting/Analytics
Risk management
Single sign on
SQL injections
Testing management
Third-Party integrations
Two-Factor authentication
User management
Vulnerability assessment
Vulnerability management
Vulnerability protection
Vulnerability scanning
Vulnerability/Threat prioritization
Web-Application security

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Akto pricing

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
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Features included:

  • Up to 25 API endpoints/month
  • Up to 12,500 Tests/month
  • Up to 1 custom Test
  • Premium connectors
  • Community Support

Professional

1,890

Per month

Features included:

  • Up to 500 API Endpoints/month
  • Up to 1M Tests/month
  • Up to 30 custom Tests
  • Jira Integration
  • CI/CD integrations
  • Alerting
  • Reporting

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Features included:

  • 300 to Unlimited API endpoints
  • 1M to Unlimited tests
  • Advanced security and compliance
  • API Data redaction
  • Unlimited environments
  • Mutual TLS support
  • Expert 24x7 technical support

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Akto support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
24/7 (Live rep)
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Videos
Documentation
Webinars
Live Online

Akto FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Akto offer?

Akto has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $1890.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Akto?

Akto has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations


Q. What languages does Akto support?

Akto supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Akto offer an API?

Yes, Akto has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Akto integrate with?

Akto integrates with the following applications:
GatewayAPI, Postman, GitHub, Cloudflare, Webhook Relay, Jira, Google Cloud CDN, Google Cloud Run, GPT-4, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Citrix ADC, PortSwigger, AWS CloudFormation, Envoy, GitLab, Google Cloud Compute Engine, IBM Content Manager, Jenkins, MuleSoft CloudHub, Slack, Bitbucket, 3scale, Google Cloud, Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Load Balancing, OpenShift, Docker, Kong Konnect


Q. What level of support does Akto offer?

Akto offers the following support options:
Chat, 24/7 (Live rep), Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum

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