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Kakunin compared with Knostic
DetailKakunin logo KakuninKnostic logo Knostic
What it doesCryptographic identity and behavioral monitoring for AI agents in regulated industries Control plane for agentic AI security on the endpoint
StageStartup Not given
Founded2025 Not given
Based inUS US
Pricing modelFree trial Freemium
PricingStarter: $39/agent/month (minimum 5 agents, $195/month total); Professional: $99/agent/month (minimum 20 agents, $1,980/month total); Enterprise: custom pricing. 30-day free trial on all plans. Kirin: Free ($0/mo) for individual developers and small teams (1-5 users), Team plan at $15/mo per user for growing teams (5+ users), Enterprise plan with custom pricing. AgentMesh: Free ($0/mo) with 300 items per category, Premium at $15/mo per user, Pro at $850/mo per user for unlimited API access
Key features
  • X.509 certificate issuance via AWS KMS with private keys stored in HSM
  • Real-time behavioral monitoring and drift detection across eight risk dimensions
  • Content-risk scoring of agent outputs per EU AI Act Article 5
  • Automatic certificate revocation when risk crosses 0.85 threshold within 60 seconds
  • Compliance reports mapped to NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, MiCA, and EU AI Act
  • Public verification endpoint with sub-500ms response and no authentication required
  • OpenTelemetry (OTLP) export to Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb, and Splunk
  • RFC 8693 delegation chains and signed forensics
  • Webhook event delivery with HMAC signatures and audit logging
  • AgentMail: verifiable email inbox per certified agent for regulatory communication
  • Policy enforcement before agent execution
  • Blocks prompt injections and rogue agent actions
  • Real-time detection of malicious behavior
  • MCP server scanning and blocking
  • Shadow AI discovery across organization
  • Secrets detection and prevention
  • Skills and extensions vetting
  • Dangerous artifacts rejection
  • Support for Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf
  • Minute-level deployment
What makes it different
  • Only platform that issues cryptographic identity to deployed agents, monitors behavior in real time, and generates compliance reports as one unified product
  • X.509 certificates provide institutional trust standard used by banks and governments for 30+ years
  • Auto-revocation with sub-60-second SLA stops misbehaving agents without manual intervention
  • Content-risk scoring evaluates agent output language, not just actions, catching prompt injections and policy violations
  • Private keys never accessible; stored only in AWS KMS with cryptographic signing performed by KMS directly
  • Visibility into shadow AI across enterprise systems
  • Unified control plane for multiple coding agents and IDEs
  • Supply chain threat discovery before components run
  • Secure coding enforcement with threat modeling
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)40 −1 (down) since last check62 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)916
Citation Flow (Majestic)3040
Referring domains (Majestic)258810

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