Upwind
Cloud and AI security from the inside out: agentless scanning plus runtime sensors
By Upwind · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Security, platform and DevOps teams consolidating CNAPP, runtime protection and exposure management into one platform
- Enterprises running multi-cloud and Kubernetes workloads that need live asset inventory rather than periodic scans
- Teams fighting alert fatigue that want runtime-validated, high-signal findings instead of static severity scores
- Security programs extending coverage to AI services, APIs and non-human identities
- Organizations that want fast deployment via agentless scanning paired with eBPF runtime sensors
Ideal size: 100-5,000+ employees people · Enterprise or scale-up with a dedicated cloud security team and multi-cloud footprint
Not for
- Companies with no cloud or container footprint; the platform is built around cloud and runtime telemetry
- Buyers who need published, self-serve pricing and a free tier; Upwind is demo-led and quote-based
- Very small teams with no dedicated security or platform engineering capacity to act on findings
- Organizations looking only for endpoint or on-premises protection rather than cloud and AI workloads
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Same day (minutes to first visibility)
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Quote-based enterprise pricing; no public price list on the vendor site
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not published; scoped per cloud footprint and environment
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Upwind, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Market position
Where Upwind 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
- Upwind
- Intruder
- StrongDM
- SureCloud
- GitGuardian
- Teleport
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Upwind. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Upwind ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Homepage customer quotes describe Upwind blue agent and green agent, and an AI Agentic Pack that uses specialized agents for correlation, investigation and prioritization. No vendor page states model sourcing, training-data practice or AI pricing.
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
- Official MCP server
- 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
Upwind is a cloud and AI security platform that pairs agentless scanning with runtime sensors so security, developer and DevOps teams share one live operating picture. Its Inside-Out model keeps cloud, API, data and identity inventory current, cuts alert noise, and claims attack detection in roughly 15 seconds. Upwind sells to large multi-cloud enterprises through demo-led, quote-based contracts with no published price list; customer quotes describe visibility within minutes of connecting an environment.
Frequently asked questions
What problem does Upwind replace, and who is it built for?
Upwind combines cloud security posture, runtime protection, exposure management, API and AI security in one platform aimed at security, developer and DevOps teams. Customers describe consolidating several products into a single pane of glass for multi-cloud infrastructure, with agentless scanning for inventory and eBPF runtime sensors for live behaviour.
How long does deployment take before we see value?
Vendor case studies say customers had comprehensive visibility into infrastructure and applications within about five minutes of deploying into production, and other quotes describe being up and running in five minutes. Read that as time to initial visibility; tuning, integrations and process change take longer.
How is Upwind priced?
No pricing is published on the vendor site. Upwind is sold through a demo-led, quote-based enterprise motion, so expect scoped contracts based on environment size and cloud footprint rather than a self-serve list price. Budget for a security review and a proof of value before contracting.
Which clouds and tools does Upwind integrate with?
The integrations page lists AWS (CloudTrail, EKS, IAM, Identity Center), Azure and Google Cloud audit logs, GKE and EKS control-plane logs, CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab and ArgoCD, data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, plus SIEM, SOAR, ticketing and messaging targets including Slack, MS Teams, Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Datadog and PagerDuty.
Does Upwind help us satisfy compliance frameworks?
Upwind provides continuous compliance assessment against frameworks including SOC, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO families, custom rules and frameworks, an executive configurations dashboard, and remediation guidance that can open tickets in your existing tooling. Note this is posture assessment for your environment, not a statement that Upwind itself is certified against those frameworks.
What AI capability is included today?
Customer quotes on the homepage describe an AI Agentic Pack with specialised blue and green agents that run correlations and investigations across multiple data sources and prioritise the highest-impact fixes. Upwind does not publish details of which models power these agents, how AI usage is logged, or whether AI carries an extra charge.