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Up to 3 solutions, scored on the same value metrics.
ROI categoryrisk compliancerisk compliance
Time-to-ValueSame day for CDN/DNS; weeks for full SASE rollouts (~1d)2-6 weeks (~30d)
Typical annual TCO$2,400/yr$0/yr
Starting price$0/yr$0/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersNo seat minimum on web plans; Zero Trust free up to 50 users, then $7 per active user/month billed monthlyNot published; pricing is tailored to organization size and the products selected.
Implementation friction2/52/5
Friction meter
Best forTeams consolidating CDN, WAF, DDoS, DNS and Zero Trust point tools onto one global network and control plane; Security leaders who must protect employee traffic, apps, APIs and AI usage under a single policy engine; Developers and startups wanting a free tier for DNS, CDN and SSL, then usage-based serverless compute; Enterprises with a global user base: 335+ cities and 95% of the Internet-connected population within 50ms; Product teams building AI agents, RAG search or MCP servers without managing GPUsSecurity teams standardizing credential protection for employees, developers, and service accounts in one vault; Enterprises that need coverage for apps and credentials outside their identity provider; Organizations that must discover shadow AI/SaaS usage and govern AI agent access at runtime; Developer-heavy engineering orgs needing secrets management and CLI/CI pipeline automation; Compliance-driven buyers that want audit-ready activity and session logs
Not forBuyers who require a self-hosted or single-tenant deployment of the security stack; Companies with no public web, API or corporate network edge footprint to protect; Teams looking for vertical business apps such as ERP, HR, ITSM or CRM; Organizations that cannot route DNS or traffic through a third-party reverse proxy; Cost-only buyers comparing on headline price rather than consolidated TCOCost-sensitive teams that want a simple shared vault with published per-seat list pricing; Organizations whose identity provider already covers every application they run; Buyers who require instant self-serve signup and checkout without a sales conversation; Teams needing a vertically specialized platform (for example a vendor-stated HIPAA BAA or FedRAMP authorization) evidenced up front
Stack fit matrix
SalesforceNot supportedNot supported
AWSNot supportedIntegration
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedNot supported
Google WorkspaceNot supportedNot supported
Microsoft 365Not supportedIntegration
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackNot supportedNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)Not supportedNot supported
Compliance
SOC 2 Not listed Listed
ISO 27001 Not listed Not listed
GDPR Not listed Not listed
HIPAA Not listed Not listed
FedRAMP Not listed Not listed
CMMC Not listed Not listed
ISO 42001 Not listed Not listed
IAPP AIGPnamed staff Not listed Not listed
Company & support
Who is behind each solution, and how you reach support. “Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention a channel, not that it is unavailable.
Founded2009 (17 yrs)2005 (21 yrs)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USToronto, Canada
PhoneEnterprise onlyNot listed
EmailNot listedNot listed
Live chatPlan not statedNot listed
Support portal / ticketsPaid plansNot listed
Community forumAll plansAll plans
Help centre / docsAll plansAll plans
Dedicated account managerNot listedNot listed
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hours24/7Not recorded
Response timeNot statedNot stated
AI & MCP readiness
Whether each solution can join your AI stack, and what it asks of you to do so.
MCP connectionreaches AI clientsNot supportedNot supported
AI featuresAgentic workflows; AI searchAI governance tooling
Built around AI?AI added to an existing productNot recorded
Trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendorNot recorded — ask the vendor
Runs onMeta (Llama), GoogleNot recorded
AI pricingBilled by usage or creditsNot recorded
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditNot recordedNot recorded
Quadrant view
Where the 2 selected solutions land on the same value plane. Toggle axes to compare on cost, speed, friction, or buyer score.
Quadrant view
Implementation friction × Value-Position score (estimate)
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
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