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The top alternatives to Protect AI in the AI Security space, compared on features, pricing, and what they're best at.
Updated March 9, 2026
Protect AI is an enterprise AI/ML security platform founded in 2022 by Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in Berlin and Bangalore, Protect AI provides end-to-end security covering the entire model lifecycle. The platform includes model scanning for vulnerabilities, supply-chain security for ML artifacts, runtime threat detection, and policy enforcement. Protect AI helps enterprises secure AI pipelines from development through production deployment, addressing the growing need for specialized AI security tooling as organizations increasingly rely on machine learning models in production environments. The company serves enterprise customers with production AI deployments who require comprehensive security coverage across their ML operations.
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