APIDynamics vs Wallarm API Security

APIDynamics is a unified API and AI security platform built around Zero Trust. It discovers APIs across clouds, gateways, proxies, and ingress points, including undocumented endpoints, and classifies them by sensitivity and risk. Runtime protection is designed to block OWASP Top 10 API threats and detect bots through behavior-based anomaly detection. Adaptive MFA evaluates signals such as behavior, IP reputation, geography, agent headers, and anomaly patterns, then can challenge risky calls using TOTP, token headers, or HMAC authentication.

The platform can run as a reverse proxy or as a gateway or service-mesh plugin, applying real-time policies to pass, challenge, or block requests. Integrations include Envoy, Istio, Kong, Apigee, NGINX, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management. It also names cloud, AI, and SaaS integrations, and can stream logs, transaction IDs, anomalies, and risk scores to observability tools. SDKs support Python, Java, Node, and other languages. Pricing is available on request; the site offers a free trial but does not state its duration.

Wallarm API Security discovers APIs and protects them in real time against attacks, abuse, and account takeover. It covers REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs without requiring an API specification, and can identify shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs. The product can generate OpenAPI specifications from live traffic and block attacks such as injection, BOLA, broken authentication, and zero-day exploits. Behavior analysis detects credential stuffing, account takeover, malicious bots, and L7 DDoS. It can surface APIs handling personal, payment, credential, or health data and map that information to compliance scope. API Leak Management scans public sources for keys, tokens, and credentials associated with customer domains. Deployment options include managed Security Edge and self-hosted Kubernetes, cloud VM, and API gateway connector setups. The Security Edge Free Tier allows 500,000 requests per month for three users per company and excludes vulnerability assessment and API Abuse Prevention. Once the monthly quota is exceeded, console access and integrations are disabled. Paid core plans require contacting sales for pricing; listed paid plans include six months of event storage.