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.
Astrix secures agent identities, credentials, and non-human identities through access management and threat detection. Willow governs employee AI tools with MCP discovery, device policies, scoped access, runtime approvals, and audit visibility.
Varonis secures the data AI can reach, now with Atlas for AI security. Willow governs what agents can do with that access: identity, scoped tool calls, approvals and audit.
Gravitee manages API traffic, event streams, and LLM routing through centralized gateways. Willow governs employee AI tools with shadow AI discovery, scoped access, runtime approvals, and audit trails across browsers and developer environments.
Kong manages API traffic, LLM routing, and server-to-server agent communication. Willow governs employee AI tools with shadow AI discovery, identity-aware access, runtime approvals, and audit trails across browsers and developer environments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TrueFoundry governs traffic through its AI, MCP and agent gateways, plus your models. Willow also covers the AI that never touches a gateway, with no Kubernetes to run.
Discovery first or policy first. Willow finds unsanctioned AI tools and local MCP configs before anyone registers them. Speakeasy goes deep on tool-level scopes for systems already connected.
Lunar secures MCP and model traffic already flowing through its gateways. Willow finds the AI that never reaches a gateway, on devices and in browsers, and governs it too.
Willow finds supported employee AI before registration and also governs OAuth, per-user credentials, individual tool calls, remote MCP servers, and browser activity.
A source-available Rust runtime your engineers operate, or a managed platform that finds and governs employee AI across devices and browsers. Model routing vs tool governance.
Runlayer leads with runtime threat detection across a massive MCP catalog. Willow leads with org-wide AI access: employee self-service, risk-scored connectors and deployment anywhere.
An open-source MCP gateway you self-host on Kubernetes, or a certified, turnkey control plane. Compare identity, shadow AI discovery, compliance ownership and the migration path.
Two managed MCP gateways, two different jobs. MintMCP ships fast hosting and HIPAA coverage. Willow adds shadow AI detection, GitHub-based governance and on-prem or air-gapped deployment.
A free, MIT-licensed aggregator you build and operate, or a managed platform with discovery, approvals and SOC 2 Type II included. Ownership vs delegation, and when to run both.
Cloudflare centralizes remote MCP servers behind Access policy. Willow governs the whole AI estate, including local MCPs on employee devices, and deploys anywhere, air-gapped included. Built to run together.
Open-source MCP infrastructure you run on Kubernetes, or a managed platform you don't. Where Archestra's prompt-injection defenses lead, and where Willow's self-service and shadow AI discovery win.
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