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Vendor comparison · 2 companies

Neo vs Wallarm

Neo sells security for AI and agentic software across every endpoint, SaaS app, and cloud service. Wallarm is an AI security and API security platform that discovers AI workloads, monitors runtime behavior, enforces policy inline, and generates continuous compliance evidence. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Neo vs Wallarm: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
NeoNeo sells security for AI and agentic software across every endpoint, SaaS app, and cloud service.neo.aiWallarmWallarm is an AI security and API security platform that discovers AI workloads, monitors runtime behavior, enforces policy inline, and generates continuous compliance evidence.wallarm.com
What it sells
  • Neo Node[3][5][6]Enforces policy on the laptop, on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Decides each agent action with allow, ask, or block.
  • Neo Console[6]Starts from a customer's organization and its teams, taken from the identity provider.
  • Neoverse[1][3][5][6]The intelligence layer for AI apps and tools.
  • AI Hypervisor[2][7][9]Provides kernel-level runtime enforcement for AI.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesAustin, United States[1]
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Privately held[3]Privately held[4][5][11]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • July 20, 2026Neo emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures.[7]
  • June 4, 2026Wallarm announced general availability of its AI Control Platform, which is available on AWS Marketplace.[17]
  • February 17, 2026Wallarm released its 2026 API ThreatStats Report, an analysis of API attack telemetry, published vulnerabilities, and API-related breaches disclosed in 2025.[18]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 4, 2026[5]
Who it fits
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to organisations that need to know which AI agents run on their fleet and what each one can reach. Neo describes examples from a healthcare SaaS company and a fintech. Neo Node deploys through an MDM that the customer already runs. Neo Console takes the organization and its teams from the customer's identity provider. Neo enforces policy on laptops running macOS, Windows, and Linux, and extends the same policy to SaaS apps and cloud deployments.Not written yet
Last verified
November 9, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Neo and Wallarm are both filed under AI model and agent security.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Neo's primary category is AI model and agent security; Wallarm's is API security.
  • Neo is also filed under Workforce AI usage security, AI governance and Software supply chain security. Wallarm is also filed under WAF and WAAP.
  • Neo lists Neo Node, Neo Console and Neoverse. Wallarm lists AI Hypervisor.
  • Wallarm is headquartered in Austin, United States.

What it sells: Neo

What Neo Node does[3][5][6]
Neo Node deploys through the MDM a customer already runs, with no kernel module and no reboot. Neo Node reads the whole session rather than only the command. Inside Claude Code, Neo Node reads the model, MCP servers, skills and plugins that Claude Code loads.
What Neoverse does[1][3][5][6]
Neoverse checks every extension, package, skill, and MCP server before it runs. Neoverse rates an unsigned server loaded by an agent as Unsafe on first sight.

What it sells: Wallarm

What AI Hypervisor does[2][7][9]
AI Hypervisor is the runtime enforcement layer for enterprise AI agents. AI Hypervisor deploys as a Kubernetes DaemonSet on EKS and instruments every labeled pod at the kernel using eBPF analysis. AI Hypervisor finds every model provider, MCP tool and agent framework running in a cluster, including ones nobody approved.

Questions about Neo and Wallarm

What do Neo and Wallarm sell?
Neo sells Neo Node, Neo Console and Neoverse. Wallarm sells AI Hypervisor.
Are Neo and Wallarm in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Neo's primary category is AI model and agent security and Wallarm's is API security.
Where are Neo and Wallarm headquartered?
Wallarm is headquartered in Austin, United States.
Who owns Neo and Wallarm?
Neo is privately held. Wallarm is privately held.
Who are Neo and Wallarm sold to?
From its own pages, the company sells mainly to organisations that need to know which AI agents run on their fleet and what each one can reach.
What have Neo and Wallarm announced recently?
July 20, 2026: Neo emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. June 4, 2026: Wallarm announced general availability of its AI Control Platform, which is available on AWS Marketplace.

About Neo

Neo sells security for AI and agentic software across every endpoint, SaaS app, and cloud service. Neo sees every AI agent, app, extension, skill, and MCP server on devices, in browsers, and across SaaS apps and cloud, checks its configuration, and enforces policy before any action runs. Neo maps an organization's teams, people, endpoints, agents, MCP servers, skills, and everything they reach.[2][4][5]

Neo addresses a situation in which few teams can say which agents run on their fleet, what each one can reach, or what it did yesterday. Neo describes agents as acting with the employee's own access, so that most tools see the employee. Neo describes code, keys, and customer data reaching AI through prompts, pastes, uploads, and agent reads, with some tools training on what they receive. Neo describes MCP servers, skills, subagents, plugins, and extensions as arriving faster than anyone can review them, with already approved apps shipping new AI features without a review.[5]

Neo Node enforces policy on the laptop, on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Neo Node deploys through the MDM a customer already runs, with no kernel module and no reboot, and decides each agent action with allow, ask, or block. Neo works as a layer inside the tool, in user land with no kernel component, where Neo sees the agent's actions and decides before they run. Inside Claude Code, Neo Node reads the model, MCP servers, skills and plugins that Claude Code loads. Neo Node reads the whole session rather than only the command. On managed endpoints, the hooks of Neo keep running if switched off and come back if deleted. Neo enforces before the action runs, at the tool call in tools with a Neo connector and at launch for the rest.[5][6]

Neo Console starts from a customer's organization and its teams, taken from the identity provider. Neo Console finds settings that give an agent more reach than its work needs. Neo inventories every AI app, agent, and MCP server on each device, scopes what each can touch, and decides each action before it runs. Neo inventories every AI tool and model on devices, browsers, and SaaS, sanctioned or not, with owner, version, and publisher. Neo checks each tool's setup and version and flags drift from a customer's baseline. Neo decides every prompt, tool call, file access, and network request on the device before it runs.[4][5][6]

Neoverse is the intelligence layer for AI apps and tools, and Neoverse is publicly available. Neoverse checks every extension, package, skill, and MCP server before it runs, and Neo blocks a hijacked or malicious release fleet-wide. Neoverse rates an unsigned server loaded by an agent as Unsafe on first sight. Neoverse rates as Malicious an MCP server that copies session memory to an outside store its listing never names, and Neo blocks it by policy when the agent loads it. Neo inspects data on the device before it reaches an AI tool, stops it or points the person to the approved tool, and flags tools set to train on a customer's data.[5][6]

Neo covers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Salesforce, and every other AI app that teams sign into, with work and personal accounts kept separate. Amazon Bedrock, Cursor Cloud, GitHub Actions, and n8n sit under the same policy as the laptop. A single killswitch in Neo ends every active AI agent session in the estate, and no new session can start until the switch is lifted. Neo can end every session, running or new, the moment several agents break from normal behavior at once. Neo follows the agent inside each tool on the endpoint and into the SaaS apps and cloud deployments it acts through, with one product and one policy for all AI security and control.[1][4][5][6]

Neo on the record

Sources

Neo full record

  1. [1]Neo launches with 100m to secure ai software across the enterpriseGlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com · published July 20, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]neo.aiNeo · neo.ai · undated page, accessed November 9, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Neo | Secure AI. From Endpoint to EverywhereNeo · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Platform | NeoNeo · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Why Neo | AI Control Starts at the EndpointNeo · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]How It Works | NeoNeo · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Neo Launches With $100M for AI Software SecurityNeo · published July 20, 2026 · Tier A

Wallarm full record

  1. [1]CompanyWallarm · wallarm.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]wallarm.comWallarm · wallarm.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Wallarm announces 55 million in series c to transform api security for the ai era 302516432Wallarm via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published July 31, 2025 · Tier A
  4. [4]Wallarm API Security Platform Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Wallarm Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier C
  6. [6]Wallarm | IntegrationsWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Wallarm | Unified WAAP Platform for APIs, AI, and Web AppsWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]AI Control Platform | Wallarm — AI Security for AWSWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI Hypervisor | Wallarm — Kernel-Level AI EnforcementWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Infrastructure Discovery | Wallarm — AWS AI Asset DiscoveryWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Kubernetes API Security: Ingress, Sidecar & eBPF | WallarmWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]API Security for Google Cloud (GCP) | WallarmWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Wallarm | Protect all your Azure assetsWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]API Security and management with Wallarm and KongWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Wallarm For MuleSoftWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Protect Agentic AIWallarm · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Wallarm Launches AI Control Platform Bringing Runtime Visibility and Enforcement to Enterprise AIWallarm · published June 4, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]New Research Reveals APIs are the Single Most Exploited Attack SurfaceBusiness Wire · published February 17, 2026 · Tier A

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