Side-by-side compare
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 (vendor: weeks, not months) (~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 monthlyNo seat tiers: unlimited users on every plan; Advisor/MSP licensing is bought as Assessment-Only or Full Feature Spokes.
Implementation friction2/53/5
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 GPUsGovernment agencies and regulators needing sovereign data residency and AI that runs inside their own boundary.; Defense contractors and critical infrastructure operators with air-gapped, segmented or OT environments.; Complex multi-entity enterprises running many frameworks across distributed business units.; Advisors, MSPs and vCISO providers delivering white-label GRC services to many clients from one hub.; Security, risk and compliance teams that must keep ISO 27001, NIST CSF, DORA, SOC 2, Essential Eight or IRAP obligations audit-ready.
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 TCOStartups and small businesses looking for a cheap self-serve checklist tool.; Teams that only need a single framework and have no multi-entity or sovereign requirements.; Organizations unwilling to run structured onboarding and Hub & Spoke configuration.; Buyers who need a published self-checkout list price before talking to sales.
Stack fit matrix
SalesforceNot supportedNot supported
AWSNot supportedNot supported
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedNot supported
Google WorkspaceNot supportedNot supported
Microsoft 365Not supportedNot supported
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackNot supportedNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)Not supportedNot supported
Compliance
SOC 2 Not listed Not listed
ISO 27001 Not listed 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 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)Not recorded
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USNot recorded
PhoneEnterprise onlyNot listed
EmailNot listedNot listed
Live chatPlan not statedNot listed
Support portal / ticketsPaid plansPlan not stated
Community forumAll plansAll plans
Help centre / docsAll plansAll plans
Dedicated account managerNot listedAll plans
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 searchCopilot / assistant; Document processing; NLP automation; Agentic workflows; AI governance tooling
Built around AI?AI added to an existing productAI added to an existing product
Trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendorNever trains on your data
Runs onMeta (Llama), GoogleNot recorded
AI pricingBilled by usage or creditsIncluded in the plan
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditNot recordedNot recorded
Quadrant view
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Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
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