Zscaler AI Protect vs Knostic
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Zscaler AI Protect
Zscaler's AI security layer: find shadow AI, govern access, test your...
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Knostic
Security for AI coding agents, MCP servers and Copilot oversharing
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Kirin Free plan for 1-5 users (project, extension, MCP and generated-code scanning); 14-day trial of Team/Enterprise; free LLM Oversharing Tester and OpenAnt |
| Paid from | Not published — GenAI Security is an add-on module, quoted after a demo | From $15/user/month (Kirin Team); Copilot Readiness $50,000/yr on AWS Marketplace |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Early-stage enterprise; ~9 customers (per Knostic, March 2025 — customers not publicly named) |
| Founded | 2026 | 2023 |
| Maker | Zscaler, Inc. | Independent (Knostic Inc.) |
| Verdict | AI Protect tackles a real problem for large enterprises: staff and developers are already using AI that security teams cannot see. Discovery across 2,900+ recognised AI apps, inline prompt inspection and automated red te... |
Knostic has moved with the market: what began as need-to-know controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot is now mainly Kirin, a policy and scanning layer for the coding agents, MCP servers and IDE extensions developers are adopt... |
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