AI Platforms & Agent Builders
Copilot, Glean, Cursor and the rest govern AI inside their own walls. Your employees use more than one of them. Willow is the neutral control plane underneath, with one set of identity, access and audit policies across every AI client and agent, whoever built it.
AI Agent Security
AI agent security platforms inspect prompts, responses and tool calls to catch prompt injection, data leakage and risky agent behavior as it happens. Willow shrinks what can go wrong in the first place. Agents only get the tools a task needs, with runtime guards and a full audit trail on every call.
Willow vs Ovalix
Both Willow and Ovalix find AI on employee devices, control public AI apps, and check coding agents. Willow adds approved tool connections by group and human approval of tool calls; Ovalix adds risk scores for third-party AI apps.
Willow vs Arthur
Arthur discovers agents, assigns ownership and risk, and enforces policy across the agent fleet. Willow governs the access layer: which tools each agent can call, scoped at runtime and fully audited.
API & LLM Gateways
API gateways govern apps calling endpoints. LLM gateways route and meter model requests. Neither knows the user behind an agent or which tools that agent should see. Willow is an MCP gateway built for that layer: identity-aware tool access, runtime guards and audit for every agent action, alongside the gateways you already run.
Willow vs Zuplo
Zuplo applies one programmable policy engine to API, LLM and MCP traffic for the apps you build. Willow governs how every employee and agent in the org reaches internal tools.
Willow vs Tyk
Tyk extends its API management control plane to MCP and agent traffic. Willow is built for the agent layer: identity-aware tool access, shadow AI discovery and employee self-service.
Willow vs LiteLLM
LiteLLM routes and meters LLM calls, with MCP traffic alongside. Willow governs which tools each agent and user can reach, with identity, approvals and audit. Model layer vs tool layer.
Identity & Access
IAM, PAM and non-human identity tools decide who or what gets access to a system. They weren't built to decide which tool an AI agent calls mid-conversation. Willow plugs into your IdP, inherits groups through SCIM, and enforces least privilege on every tool call at runtime. Most teams run both.
Willow vs C1
C1 brings identity governance to humans, agents and non-human identities. Willow enforces least privilege on every agent tool call at runtime, and finds the unmanaged agents and MCPs on employee devices.
Integration & Agent Tooling
Integration platforms and tool-calling SDKs connect agents to apps fast. Governance is usually an add-on, scoped to whatever you built on them. Willow connects any agent to a vetted connector catalog or to any API wrapped as MCP, with SSO, RBAC, approvals and audit built in for every team.
MCP Gateways
An MCP gateway sits between AI agents and the tools they call. It authenticates every request, scopes which tools each agent can use, and logs every call. Most gateways only govern traffic that already flows through them. Willow also discovers the MCP servers, skills and agents running outside the gateway, then governs both.
Willow vs Natoma
Two managed platforms for org-wide agent access. Compare MCP deployment, role-based tool access, shadow AI detection depth, and deployment options from SaaS to air-gapped.
Willow vs Airia
Airia routes every AI request through one governed gateway of approved models and tools. Willow scopes tool access per user and per task, and finds the AI that bypasses the gateway entirely.
Willow vs MCP Manager
MCP Manager by Usercentrics gives IT a private MCP registry, RBAC and audit logs. Willow adds discovery of the MCPs nobody registered, employee self-service and air-gapped deployment.
Security Platforms
SSE, XDR, DLP and AppSec platforms protect networks, endpoints, data and code. To them, an agent calling a tool looks like ordinary web traffic. Willow adds the missing layer: tool-level control per user and per agent, with audit logs streaming into the SIEM you already use.
Willow vs CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR
CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR detects prompt attacks and data loss at the model layer. Willow governs what agents are allowed to do: identity, scoped access, and audit. How they compare, and why many enterprises run both.
Shadow AI & AI Posture Tools
Shadow AI tools find the AI apps, agents and MCP servers employees use without approval, then score the risk. Most stop at visibility and alerts. Willow finds unmanaged MCPs, skills and AI clients on devices and in the browser, then gives employees a governed way to keep using them through one gateway.
