Comparison Guides

AIM vs Enterprise Solutions

See how AIM compares to other identity and security solutions. Find the right fit for your AI agent security needs.

AIM by OpenA2A

Open Source Agent Identity Management

Purpose-built for AI agents. Cryptographic identity, capability-based access control, and continuous trust scoring. Self-hosted, open source, free forever.

5-minute setup
Cryptographic identity
Apache-2.0 license
Self-hosted option

Compare AIM With

Microsoft Entra Agent ID

Microsoft

Compare with Microsoft's cloud-native agent identity solution for Azure AI services.

Cloud-NativeAzure EcosystemEnterprise

Best for Azure-centric organizations

SailPoint Agent Identity Security

SailPoint

Compare with SailPoint's enterprise identity governance platform for AI agents.

Enterprise IGAGovernanceCompliance

Best for governance-first organizations

Okta Workforce Identity

Okta

Understand the difference between human workforce identity and AI agent identity.

Human IdentitySSOMFA

Different focus: humans vs agents

CrowdStrike Falcon Identity

CrowdStrike

Compare preventive agent identity management with threat detection approaches.

Threat DetectionITDREDR

Different layer: prevention vs detection

Auth0 by Okta

Okta

Understand why human user authentication differs from AI agent identity management.

Human AuthOAuthDeveloper Tools

Different focus: users vs autonomous agents

HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp (IBM)

Compare agent identity management with secrets management and credential storage.

Secrets ManagementInfrastructureDynamic Secrets

Different layer: identity vs secrets

AWS Cognito

Amazon Web Services

Understand why human user authentication differs from AI agent identity management.

Human AuthAWS NativeUser Pools

Different focus: users vs autonomous agents

Keycloak

Red Hat / CNCF

Both open source, different identity subjects. Keycloak for humans, AIM for AI agents.

Open SourceSSOHuman Identity

Same values, different problems

Google Cloud IAM

Google Cloud

Compare agent identity management with cloud resource access control and service accounts.

Cloud IAMResource AccessGCP Native

Different layer: agent identity vs resource access

AWS IAM

Amazon Web Services

Compare agent identity management with AWS resource access control and IAM roles.

Cloud IAMResource AccessAWS Native

Different layer: agent identity vs resource access

Azure IAM

Microsoft

Compare agent identity management with Azure RBAC and managed identities.

Cloud IAMResource AccessAzure Native

Different layer: agent identity vs resource access

At a Glance

SolutionFocusLicensingSelf-HostedAI Agent Native
AIMAgent IdentityOpen Source
Microsoft EntraCloud IdentityProprietaryPartial
SailPointIGA / GovernanceProprietaryPartial
OktaHuman IdentityProprietary
CrowdStrikeThreat DetectionProprietary
Auth0Human AuthProprietary
HashiCorp VaultSecrets MgmtBSL (Open Core)
AWS CognitoHuman AuthProprietary
KeycloakHuman IdentityOpen Source
Google Cloud IAMResource AccessProprietary
AWS IAMResource AccessProprietary
Azure IAMResource AccessProprietary

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