Knostic vs Nightfall AI vs Protect AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Knostic
Need-to-know access control for enterprise LLMs — stops AI oversharing...
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Nightfall AI
ML-based DLP tuned for SaaS, email, and AI apps.
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Protect AI
Security platform for the ML supply chain
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Paid | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Free trial for Kirin AI Coding Safety (up to 5 licences); free LLM Oversharing Tester tool | — | — |
| Paid from | From ~$50,000/year (AWS Marketplace annual contract; direct sales quotes vary) | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | Early-stage enterprise; ~9 customers (per Knostic, March 2025 — customers not publicly named) | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | — | 2022 |
| Maker | Knostic, Inc. (independent) | — | — |
| Verdict | Knostic fills a genuine gap that traditional DLP and IAM platforms miss: the inference-time leakage problem unique to LLMs, where an AI assistant can synthesise restricted knowledge from documents a user technically has... |
Nightfall's pitch is that machine-learning detectors beat regex at the false-positive game, and reviewers largely back that up: teams say it rolls out and tunes faster than legacy DLP, with a simple end-user notification... |
Protect AI was a leading AI/ML security company offering model scanning, AI security posture management, AI red-teaming and runtime protection across the ML lifecycle, and a strong contributor to the open-source ML suppl... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.