See how AIM compares to other identity and security solutions. Find the right fit for your AI agent security needs.
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.
Microsoft
Compare with Microsoft's cloud-native agent identity solution for Azure AI services.
Best for Azure-centric organizations
SailPoint
Compare with SailPoint's enterprise identity governance platform for AI agents.
Best for governance-first organizations
Okta
Understand the difference between human workforce identity and AI agent identity.
Different focus: humans vs agents
CrowdStrike
Compare preventive agent identity management with threat detection approaches.
Different layer: prevention vs detection
Okta
Understand why human user authentication differs from AI agent identity management.
Different focus: users vs autonomous agents
HashiCorp (IBM)
Compare agent identity management with secrets management and credential storage.
Different layer: identity vs secrets
Amazon Web Services
Understand why human user authentication differs from AI agent identity management.
Different focus: users vs autonomous agents
Red Hat / CNCF
Both open source, different identity subjects. Keycloak for humans, AIM for AI agents.
Same values, different problems
Google Cloud
Compare agent identity management with cloud resource access control and service accounts.
Different layer: agent identity vs resource access
Amazon Web Services
Compare agent identity management with AWS resource access control and IAM roles.
Different layer: agent identity vs resource access
Microsoft
Compare agent identity management with Azure RBAC and managed identities.
Different layer: agent identity vs resource access
| Solution | Focus | Licensing | Self-Hosted | AI Agent Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIM | Agent Identity | Open Source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Entra | Cloud Identity | Proprietary | ✗ | Partial |
| SailPoint | IGA / Governance | Proprietary | ✗ | Partial |
| Okta | Human Identity | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| CrowdStrike | Threat Detection | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| Auth0 | Human Auth | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| HashiCorp Vault | Secrets Mgmt | BSL (Open Core) | ✓ | ✗ |
| AWS Cognito | Human Auth | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| Keycloak | Human Identity | Open Source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Google Cloud IAM | Resource Access | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| AWS IAM | Resource Access | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
| Azure IAM | Resource Access | Proprietary | ✗ | ✗ |
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