Akto

Akto is a proactive API security platform that discovers, tests, and protects APIs and AI systems across an organization's infrastructure. Its open-source core (MIT, Java) delivers automated API discovery, API security posture management, and dynamic API security testing (DAST) in CI/CD, backed by a community test library of 1000+ tests covering the OWASP API Security Top 10 and HackerOne top vulnerabilities. Traffic is ingested from eBPF, Kubernetes, API gateways (Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft and more), and cloud mirroring, and can be deployed self-hosted in ~60 seconds or as SaaS. Akto has expanded into agentic AI security with Atlas (shadow-AI discovery for employee-facing endpoints) and Argus (governance and red-teaming for homegrown AI, MCP tools, and LLMs), adding runtime guardrails and human-in-the-loop testing. Recognized by Gartner in the API and AI-agent protection markets and backed by Accel.

Akto is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, API Security, Security, API Security Testing, and DAST.

Akto’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, changelog, and 11 more developer resources.

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30.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAPI SecuritySecurityAPI Security TestingDASTAPI DiscoveryAI SecurityMCP SecurityOpen SourceDevSecOpsGovernance

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Composite quality — 30.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Akto
description: Akto is a proactive API security platform that discovers, tests, and protects APIs and AI systems across an organization's
  infrastructure. Its open-source core (MIT, Java) delivers automated API discovery, API security posture management, and
  dynamic API security testing (DAST) in CI/CD, backed by a community test library of 1000+ tests covering the OWASP API Security
  Top 10 and HackerOne top vulnerabilities. Traffic is ingested from eBPF, Kubernetes, API gateways (Envoy, NGINX, Istio,
  Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft and more), and cloud mirroring, and can be deployed self-hosted in ~60 seconds or as SaaS. Akto has
  expanded into agentic AI security with Atlas (shadow-AI discovery for employee-facing endpoints) and Argus (governance and
  red-teaming for homegrown AI, MCP tools, and LLMs), adding runtime guardrails and human-in-the-loop testing. Recognized
  by Gartner in the API and AI-agent protection markets and backed by Accel.
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- type: Blog
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- type: Support
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- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.akto.io/terms/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.akto.io/terms/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.akto.io
- type: ChangeLog
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- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/akto-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/akto-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/akto-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/akto-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.akto.io/
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