Cranium
AI security and governance platform to discover, observe, govern, secure and prove every AI, agent and vendor.
By Cranium AI, Inc. · HQ Short Hills, US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Security and AI governance teams that must find shadow AI, agents and third-party AI across code, cloud and SaaS
- Regulated enterprises needing continuous EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 evidence rather than snapshots
- GRC, audit and legal teams that must answer regulator, board and customer questionnaires on AI use
- AppSec and platform teams shipping LLM apps and agents that need red-teaming and runtime controls
- Procurement and vendor-risk teams scoring AI embedded in third-party products before signing
Ideal size: 100+ employees with a central security/GRC team people · Enterprise with production AI or LLM usage and regulatory obligations
Not for
- Companies with no AI or copilots in production that only need a policy template
- Teams wanting a self-serve, credit-card product with published list pricing
- Buyers looking for a general-purpose GRC suite covering non-AI risk domains
- Small teams without a central security, risk or compliance function
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 6-8 weeks via guided POV
~60 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Not published; enterprise licensing quoted by sales. The knowledge base documents the licensing structure and third-party vendor cost questions.
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not listed
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Cranium, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Short Hills, US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsPlan not stated
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Public knowledge base at cranium.ai/docs. No support tiers, hours or SLA are published on the pages reviewed.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Cranium sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
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.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Cranium
- Salient
- Elliptic
- Lucinity
- Clarity AI
- Middesk
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Cranium. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Cranium ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Cranium is itself an AI governance and security product: it inventories models, agents and vendors, maps controls to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, and issues real-time AI Cards and attestation. Its compliance page notes deterministic, non-LLM verdicts from Trace rather than generative output.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Cranium is an AI security and governance platform for enterprises that must find, control and prove their use of AI. Its AI Trust Loop - Discover, Observe, Govern, Secure, Prove - inventories models, agents and third-party AI, inspects runtime sessions, maps controls to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, and produces live AI Cards and attestation. Cranium states it is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified and is used by regulated enterprises. Pricing is quoted by sales rather than published.
Frequently asked questions
What problem does Cranium solve for a security, risk or compliance leader?
It gives one place to discover every model, agent and third-party AI, observe how they behave at runtime, enforce AI policy, and produce current, framework-mapped evidence. Cranium frames the outcome as cutting shadow AI and replacing point-in-time audit evidence with continuous proof for regulators, boards, partners and customers.
Which regulations and frameworks does Cranium map to?
Cranium states that it maps systems end-to-end to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, scores compliance continuously and can also reflect your own internal standards through policy definition and enforcement.
What certifications does Cranium itself hold?
Cranium states on its compliance and contact pages that it is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified and trusted by regulated enterprises. No FedRAMP authorization, HIPAA certification or ISO 42001 certification of Cranium itself is claimed on the pages reviewed.
How is Cranium priced, and is there a self-serve tier?
No list pricing is published; the site routes buyers to a demo, and the knowledge base documents the platform licensing structure and third-party vendor cost questions. Expect an enterprise quote and a proof-of-value process rather than self-serve plans.
Does Cranium integrate with our existing tooling and version control?
The knowledge base covers integrations with workflow, ticket and vulnerability management tools such as ServiceNow and Jira, supported version control systems, CodeSensor scanning of repositories, CloudSensor for cloud environments and a Public API.