Comparison

SecPortal vs Wallarm
runtime API protection vs delivery workspace

Wallarm is an end-to-end API security platform that runs inline traffic inspection and protection at the API edge. Protection nodes deploy on cloud load balancers, NGINX, Envoy, Kong, Kubernetes ingress, AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. The platform combines API Discovery (continuous cataloguing of every running endpoint from observed traffic), API Threat Protection (runtime blocking of OWASP API Top 10 abuses, account takeover, credential stuffing, broken object-level authorisation, and bot activity), API Abuse Prevention (rate-anomaly and behavioural detection on production traffic), and API Security Testing (pre-production active scans against an OpenAPI or GraphQL spec). The buyer is typically an internal security or product security team with a live API estate behind a gateway. SecPortal is a different shape: scoped engagements, scanning, manual finding entry, AI report generation, branded client portal, and the engagement record live inside one workspace. This page is the side-by-side for buyers comparing an inline runtime API security platform to a delivery workspace that scans, reports, and delivers on its own.

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Feature	SecPortal	Wallarm
Primary use case	Security delivery workspace with scanning, findings, AI reports, branded client portal, and engagement record on one tenant	End-to-end API security platform with inline runtime protection nodes deployed on cloud load balancers, NGINX, Envoy, Kong, Kubernetes ingress, AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
Engagement model with scope, ROE, and deliverables		Deployed protection nodes, observed traffic, and the discovered endpoint catalogue rather than scoped engagement with a kickoff and a deliverable
Client model with onboarding, contacts, and access control		Internal user roles inside the Wallarm console; no external client onboarding model
Branded white-label client portal on a tenant subdomain
Built-in external vulnerability scanning (16 modules: SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, CVE correlation)
Authenticated web application scanning (DAST, 17 modules)		API Security Testing module runs spec-driven active scans against an OpenAPI or GraphQL specification in pre-production
Code scanning (SAST and SCA via Semgrep)
Subdomain enumeration and external attack surface discovery
Inline API runtime protection at the edge		Core mechanic; protection nodes deploy in the traffic path and inspect requests in line
API Discovery from observed production traffic		Core mechanic; the platform passively catalogues every running endpoint from observed traffic
Runtime threat detection and active blocking (account takeover, credential stuffing, OWASP API Top 10 abuses, bot activity)		Core mechanic; the Threat Protection module runs on live traffic
API abuse prevention with rate-anomaly and behavioural detection		Core mechanic; the Abuse Prevention module enforces per-token and per-session limits on production traffic
Spec-driven API DAST (OpenAPI, GraphQL)	Authenticated DAST against API endpoints on verified domains	API Security Testing module runs spec-driven active scans against an OpenAPI or GraphQL specification
Manual finding entry with full editor		Findings originate from runtime detection events, discovered endpoints, and API Security Testing scans rather than from operator-authored entry inside the workspace
AI-powered narrative report generation (executive, technical, remediation)		Console dashboards, traffic analytics, blocked attack details, and the API ThreatStats report rather than engagement-shaped executive, technical, and remediation deliverables
300+ finding templates with remediation guidance		Vendor-curated runtime detection records and per-rule remediation guidance from the Wallarm rule set
CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring		Severity normalised through the Wallarm detection model rather than per-finding CVSS vector entry
Scanner result import (Nessus, Burp Suite, CSV)		Wallarm output and observed traffic are the primary intake paths rather than third-party scanner ingestion
Encrypted credential vault for authenticated scans (AES-256-GCM)		Credentials and tokens managed inside the API Security Testing configuration for spec-driven scans
Retest workflow paired to original finding		Re-evaluation through the next API Security Testing scan against the spec or the next observed-traffic detection cycle
Exception register with eight-field decision chain		Per-finding suppression workflow scoped to the runtime rule or detection rather than an engagement-shaped per-finding decision chain
Compliance framework templates	21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight	Per-finding categorisation against OWASP API Security Top 10 and CWE; framework-side compliance mapping is not the primary lane
Continuous scheduled scanning cadence (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly)		Continuous traffic inspection is always on through deployed nodes; pre-production API Security Testing cadence is configurable per spec
Scan-to-scan diff and change-event generation across scheduled runs		Traffic baselines and discovered-endpoint trend views derived from observed traffic
Integrated invoicing and Stripe Connect payments for engagements
Activity audit trail with CSV export		Console audit logs inside the Wallarm tenant
MFA enforcement on every workspace		SSO and IdP-driven controls inside the customer tenant
Free plan available		Sales-led commercial pricing rather than a published free tier
Pricing model	Free, Pro, Team	Sales-led with annual commitment, priced on API traffic volume (RPS or per month), deployed protection nodes, discovered API endpoint count, and bundled modules
Setup time	2 minutes	Named account onboarding, protection node deployment in the traffic path, baseline traffic capture, rule pack tuning, and API spec ingest over a multi-week ramp
Best fit for	AppSec teams, internal security teams, vulnerability management teams, product security teams, pentest firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that want scanning, findings, AI reports, branded portal, and the engagement record on one workspace	Internal security and product security teams with a live API estate behind a gateway, ingress controller, load balancer, or service mesh that want vendor-supplied runtime inspection, threat detection, and active blocking on the wire alongside pre-production API Security Testing

SecPortal vs Wallarm: runtime API protection vs delivery workspace

Wallarm is an end-to-end API security platform that runs inline traffic inspection and protection at the API edge. Protection nodes deploy on cloud load balancers, NGINX, Envoy, Kong, Kubernetes ingress, AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and inspect requests in line with the live traffic. The platform combines API Discovery (continuous cataloguing of every running endpoint from observed traffic), API Threat Protection (runtime blocking of OWASP API Top 10 abuses, account takeover, credential stuffing, broken object-level authorisation attempts, and bot activity), API Abuse Prevention (rate-anomaly and behavioural detection on production traffic), and API Security Testing (pre-production active scans against an OpenAPI or GraphQL spec). The buyer is typically an internal security or product security team at a company with a live API estate behind a gateway.

SecPortal is a different shape. SecPortal is the security delivery and findings workspace for AppSec teams, product security teams, vulnerability management teams, internal security teams, penetration testing firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that run scoped engagements and ship findings to application owners, business unit stakeholders, auditors, or external clients. The engagement, the scoping, the manual and scanner findings, the AI-drafted report, the branded client portal, the retest, and the invoice all sit inside one workspace. If the buying question is whether to license inline runtime API protection on the wire or run a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements and ships deliverables, this page is the side-by-side.

Where the inline API security model stops for delivery work

These are not Wallarm-specific criticisms; they are properties of an inline runtime API security platform when the buyer compares it to a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements, ships engagement-shaped reports, and runs under the security team brand.

Built around inline API runtime protection, not a scoped delivery workspace

Wallarm is an end-to-end API security platform that runs inline traffic inspection and protection at the API edge through deployable nodes on cloud load balancers, NGINX, Envoy, Kong, Kubernetes ingress, AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. The platform combines API Discovery (passive cataloguing of every running endpoint from observed traffic), API Threat Protection (runtime blocking of OWASP API Top 10 abuses, account takeover, credential stuffing, broken object-level authorisation, and bot activity), API Abuse Prevention (rate-anomaly and behavioural detection on production traffic), and API Security Testing (pre-production active scans against an OpenAPI or GraphQL spec). The buyer assumption is an internal security team or product security team that has a live API estate behind a gateway and wants vendor-managed runtime detection and blocking on the wire. SecPortal is a different shape: a security delivery and remediation workspace that runs its own external, authenticated, and code scanning, holds the engagement record (scope, kickoff, deliverable, retest, closure), accepts manual finding entry from the workspace team, drafts the AI report, and ships the deliverable through a branded portal on a tenant subdomain.

No engagement-shaped scope, deliverable, or closure record

Wallarm is organised around deployed protection nodes, observed API traffic, the discovered endpoint catalogue, the runtime detection feed, and the API Security Testing scan output. There is no concept of a scoped engagement that opens with a kickoff, runs against a defined target list and timebox, ships a signed-off final report under a stakeholder name, schedules a tester-driven retest paired to an original finding, and closes with an invoice. Teams that need to deliver a scoped pentest, a one-off vulnerability assessment, an AppSec review, or a compliance-driven engagement on top of inline API protection have to model that lifecycle outside the Wallarm console.

No branded client portal on your own subdomain

Wallarm findings, blocked attacks, abuse incidents, and API testing results are reviewed inside the Wallarm console. The console serves the security team operating the protection nodes and the engineering team that owns the API surface. There is no white-label tenant subdomain a security team can hand to an external client, a downstream application owner, a business unit stakeholder, a regulator, or an auditor under their own brand. SecPortal serves a branded client portal on the tenant subdomain so every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download lives under your name rather than under a vendor name. That matters whenever the security testing output goes to a recipient who is reading a deliverable, not operating a runtime protection product.

No AI-drafted engagement-shaped narrative reports

Wallarm publishes the API ThreatStats report and surfaces console dashboards, traffic analytics, blocked attack details, abuse incident summaries, and API testing scan results against the discovered endpoint catalogue. It does not draft engagement-shaped executive summaries, narrative technical writeups, or remediation roadmaps from a scoped finding set on demand. SecPortal uses Claude to draft executive, technical, and remediation deliverables from the live engagement findings, including CVSS vectors, evidence, severity, asset context, and proof-of-exploit details, so the team edits a draft rather than starting from a blank page.

No code scanning inside the same workspace

Wallarm covers the running API surface (inline traffic, discovered endpoints, runtime threat detection) and adds pre-production API Security Testing driven by a spec. It does not run SAST or SCA against connected source repositories as part of the same workspace. Programmes that combine API runtime protection with secure code review or supply-chain dependency analysis stitch the code-side output together through a separate code scanning tool. SecPortal runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against repositories connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth, and the code-side findings sit on the same engagement record as the external, authenticated, and (where in scope) API DAST output.

Sales-led pricing tied to traffic volume, deployed nodes, and API endpoint count

Wallarm pricing is sales-led and is typically licensed against API traffic volume (requests per second or per month), the number of deployed protection nodes, the discovered API endpoint count, and the bundled modules (API Discovery, API Threat Protection, API Abuse Prevention, API Security Testing). Annual commitment, named-account onboarding, baseline traffic ramp, and tuning of the rule pack are standard. SecPortal pricing is published on the website with a free plan, monthly Pro and Team tiers, and no annual contract floor for the Pro and Team tiers; new workspaces can sign up and run a scan inside two minutes.

Runtime API protection vs delivery workspace as buyer shapes

The honest framing is that the two models solve adjacent problems for different buyer shapes. Saying one is universally better than the other misses the underlying buying decision the security team is making.

An inline API security platform is built around live traffic, runtime detection, and the protection edge

Wallarm and adjacent inline API security platforms (Salt Security, Noname Security, Traceable, 42Crunch) start from the assumption that the buyer has a live API estate behind a gateway, ingress controller, load balancer, or service mesh, and wants vendor-supplied runtime inspection, threat detection, and active blocking on the wire. The economic value is removing per-request abuse, account takeover, scraping, and OWASP API Top 10 exploit attempts before they reach the application, and continuously cataloguing the endpoint surface from observed traffic so the security team can see every endpoint the production system is serving.

A delivery workspace is built around the engagement record and the deliverable

SecPortal does not assume that runtime API protection deployed inline is the right shape for every security testing programme. The workspace runs its own external, authenticated, and code scanning, holds the finding record, supports manual entry from a tester or reviewer, calibrates severity through CVSS 3.1 with environmental adjustment, and ships the deliverable through a branded portal on a tenant subdomain. The same record holds for a scoped pentest, a continuous vulnerability assessment, an AppSec code review, a cloud security assessment, an API security review, and a compliance-driven engagement. The finding lives where the work is delivered, not in a runtime feed that ends at the protection node boundary.

The right answer depends on whether the buyer is protecting an API at runtime or shipping security testing deliverables

If the internal security or product security team has a live API estate behind a gateway, an existing engineering team that ships through that gateway, and a budget shape that fits a runtime protection platform priced on traffic volume and deployed nodes, an inline API security platform like Wallarm is the right shape. If the team is shipping engagement deliverables to application owners, external clients, business unit stakeholders, regulators, or auditors and the buyer wants the scanner, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, and the retest on one workspace without buying inline traffic inspection, a delivery workspace like SecPortal is the right shape. Both can be true: many enterprise teams run a runtime API protection platform on the wire and a delivery workspace for scoped engagement output side by side.

Who each platform is the right fit for

Buyer fit is the operating question, not feature parity. The right platform depends on whether the security team is paying for runtime API protection on the wire or shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace.

Wallarm fits internal security teams running runtime API protection on a live API estate

If you are an internal security or product security team, the API estate is behind a gateway, ingress controller, or service mesh, the engineering team can deploy a protection node into the traffic path, and the budget fits a runtime detection-and-blocking programme priced on traffic volume, deployed nodes, and bundled modules, Wallarm was built for that shape. The buyer is paying for the combination of inline runtime detection (account takeover, credential stuffing, OWASP API Top 10 abuses, broken object-level authorisation attempts), API Discovery (continuous cataloguing of every running endpoint observed in traffic), and pre-production API Security Testing against a spec.

SecPortal fits teams shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace

If you are an AppSec team, a product security team, a vulnerability management team, an internal security team, a penetration testing firm, an MSSP, or a consultancy that wants the scanner, the engagement record, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, and the retest all on one tenant, SecPortal carries that lifecycle without forcing the team to license a runtime protection platform or deploy a protection node into the traffic path before the first deliverable lands. The same workspace serves an internal team shipping reports to application owners and a firm shipping reports to external clients.

SecPortal fits buyers who want the deliverable, the brand, and the engagement record on one workspace

If the security testing output is read by an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, an auditor, a regulator, or an external client, and every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download has to live under your brand rather than under an API protection vendor brand, SecPortal is the workspace that holds the record. Findings can still be imported from Nessus, Burp Suite, or CSV when an inline API security platform such as Wallarm sits next to SecPortal as the runtime detection layer. The same record holds for an internal team that wants the deliverable shape (executive summary, technical writeup, remediation roadmap, retest closure pack) without running runtime API inspection from inside the same console.

Pricing comparison

SecPortal publishes pricing on the website. Wallarm pricing is sales-led and tied to traffic volume, deployed nodes, the discovered endpoint count, and the bundled module set. The tiers below are illustrative of the buying shape rather than a direct per-feature equivalence.

SecPortal Free

Free forever

1 user, 3 clients, 2 engagements per client, 3 AI credits, 6 core scan modules.

SecPortal Pro

$149 per month

Unlimited clients and engagements, AI reports, full external scanner suite, authenticated scanning, code scanning, retesting workflow, and branded client portal.

SecPortal Team

$299 per month

Everything in Pro plus team management, RBAC, invoicing, continuous monitoring schedules, scan diff, and additional AI credits.

Wallarm

Sales-led pricing

Annual commitment priced on API traffic volume (RPS or per month), deployed protection nodes, discovered endpoint count, and bundled modules across API Discovery, Threat Protection, Abuse Prevention, and API Security Testing.

Why teams pick SecPortal alongside or instead of Wallarm

Move from a runtime API security platform priced on traffic volume and deployed nodes to a workspace that holds engagements, findings, AI reports, retests, and a branded portal on one record
Generate executive summaries, technical writeups, and remediation roadmaps from engagement findings rather than exporting runtime traffic analytics into a separate reporting tool
Hand application owners, external clients, regulators, or auditors a branded portal on your subdomain instead of access to a vendor-operated runtime protection console
Bring external scanning, authenticated DAST, and code scanning into the same workspace as the engagement record instead of pairing runtime API protection with separate scanners and a separate reporting layer
Capture manual API findings (broken object-level authorisation walkthroughs, mass-assignment proofs, business-logic chains, hardcoded credential traces) alongside scanner output rather than translating them into a runtime detection rule
Pair every retest to the original finding so the closure record holds up under audit rather than relying on the next runtime detection cycle to confirm the fix
Map findings across 21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight from one workspace
Bill the engagement from the same platform with Stripe Connect rather than handling runtime API protection licensing in a separate sales cycle
Start on a free plan and pay for the seats and storage you actually use rather than committing to a sales-led annual programme priced on traffic and nodes
Run SecPortal alongside Wallarm when runtime API protection on the wire sits next to scoped engagement delivery to application owners, auditors, or external clients

How SecPortal scanning compares to the Wallarm model

SecPortal scanning is operator-driven rather than runtime-mediated. The same workspace runs the external scan, the authenticated DAST scan, and the code scan, then surfaces the findings on the engagement record the operator owns. Wallarm adds an inline protection node between the client and the API, so the runtime layer observes, catalogues, and (for the Threat Protection and Abuse Prevention modules) blocks requests as they arrive. That runtime layer is part of the licensed service rather than a workspace capability the customer operates outside the traffic path. The trade is inline runtime detection bundled into the contract against operator control of the testing surface and the deliverable.

The external scanning feature runs 16 modules across SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation. The authenticated scanning feature adds DAST behind stored credentials through cookie, bearer, basic, or form authentication so issues that only surface inside an authenticated session do not slip past anonymous scanning. The code scanning feature runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against a repository connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth. The continuous monitoring feature runs daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly scans on a schedule and writes the results back to the same engagement record.

How credentials and authorisation are handled before any scan runs

Authenticated scanning needs credentials to live somewhere durable, and external scanning needs proof of target ownership before any module fires. SecPortal stores credentials in an encrypted credential vault with AES-256-GCM, scoped to a verified domain. Every external scan is gated on domain verification through DNS TXT or meta tag, and the scan-guard codes (DOMAIN_NOT_VERIFIED, CREDENTIAL_DOMAIN_MISMATCH, AUTH_NOT_ALLOWED) refuse to run when the chain of evidence does not hold. The authorisation discipline lives in the workspace rather than inside a vendor-managed runtime protection service.

From scan to deliverable

The output of a scan is the beginning of a deliverable, not the end. SecPortal turns scan results into draft findings, the operator triages and validates them, the findings management layer holds the consolidated record with CVSS vectors, evidence, and remediation, and the AI reports feature generates the executive and technical narrative the recipient receives. The branded client portal is where the deliverable lands; the API security testing workflow covers how authenticated DAST output, manual API findings, and spec-driven proofs come together on one engagement.

For internal security teams that want to run a Wallarm deployment for runtime API protection on the wire and a SecPortal workspace for engagement delivery in parallel, the remediation tracking workflow and the security testing programme management workflow cover how findings from multiple sources move from intake to closure with named owners, SLA tiers, and an audit trail. The importing third-party scanner results guide documents the verified Nessus, Burp Suite, and CSV import paths if the team wants to consolidate Wallarm API Security Testing output and SecPortal native findings on the same engagement record.

How runtime detection events translate into engagement findings

Runtime detection events from a platform like Wallarm describe live-traffic behaviour (a sequence of credential-stuffing attempts, a broken object-level authorisation request that bypassed the intended check, a mass-assignment payload that wrote unexpected fields). Promoting those events to engagement findings is the operator workflow on the SecPortal side: the AppSec or product security operator reviews the runtime incident, reproduces the underlying vulnerability against the application, writes the finding with reproduction steps and a CVSS vector through the findings management layer, and routes it to the engineering owner through the ownership and routing workflow. The runtime detection captures that an exploit attempt happened; the engagement finding captures the underlying defect that has to be fixed in code or configuration.

Honest scope: what SecPortal does not do

SecPortal is a security testing and delivery workspace. It is not a runtime API protection product, not a WAAP, not an inline traffic inspector, and not an API gateway. The capabilities below are intentionally out of scope so the buyer can read the comparison accurately.

SecPortal does not deploy inline protection nodes on cloud load balancers, NGINX, Envoy, Kong, Kubernetes ingress, AWS, Azure, or GCP, and does not inspect production API traffic in line.
SecPortal does not run a passive API Discovery layer that catalogues running endpoints from observed traffic; the workspace relies on operator-defined scope and authenticated scanning against verified domains.
SecPortal does not perform runtime threat detection or active blocking of credential stuffing, account takeover, broken object-level authorisation, mass assignment, or bot abuse on live API traffic.
SecPortal does not provide a runtime API abuse prevention engine with rate-anomaly thresholds, behavioural baselines, or per-token rate limiting on production traffic.
SecPortal does not ship packaged push connectors into Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, SIEM, SOAR, WAF, GRC, CMDB, or API gateway management planes; integration into those systems is the workspace consumer responsibility, not a managed offering.
SecPortal does not provide enterprise SSO, SCIM provisioning, or SAML federation; workspace authentication uses email and password with mandatory MFA via TOTP.

Adjacent comparisons

If the evaluation is between Wallarm and other API security platforms, web application security testing tools, runtime protection products, or DAST-anchored scanners, the comparisons below cover the same buying decision from different angles.

SecPortal vs Salt Security for the behavioural API security platform comparison anchored on out-of-band analysis of mirrored production traffic, continuous endpoint discovery, and API posture governance.
SecPortal vs Noname Security for the runtime API security platform comparison covering Noname (now Akamai API Security) with continuous endpoint discovery, posture management, runtime threat detection, and pre-production Active Testing against an OpenAPI spec.
SecPortal vs Traceable AI for the AI-powered runtime API security platform comparison covering Traceable (now Harness API Security) with per-user behavioural analytics, business-logic abuse detection, and pre-production Application Security Testing against an OpenAPI spec.
SecPortal vs StackHawk for the developer-first CI-pipeline DAST comparison driven by an OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL, or HAR specification.
SecPortal vs Escape for the AI-powered offensive security platform comparison covering Attack Surface Management, Business-Logic-Aware DAST, and AI Pentesting on the API and application surface.
SecPortal vs Acunetix for the dedicated web and API vulnerability scanner comparison.
SecPortal vs Invicti for the DAST-anchored web application scanning comparison.
SecPortal vs Burp Suite for the manual application and API security testing tool comparison.
SecPortal vs Detectify for the external attack surface monitoring comparison.
SecPortal vs Intruder for the SaaS continuous estate scanning comparison.
SecPortal vs Edgescan for the Hybrid PTaaS continuous managed-validation comparison.
SecPortal vs Checkmarx for the enterprise AppSec portfolio comparison including Checkmarx API Security.
SecPortal vs Veracode for the enterprise AppSec platform comparison.
SecPortal vs Snyk for the developer-first AppSec platform comparison.
SecPortal vs Aikido for the bundled developer-first AppSec platform comparison.
SecPortal vs Rapid7 for the InsightVM and InsightAppSec internal SecOps comparison.
SecPortal vs Qualys for the enterprise vulnerability management comparison.
SecPortal vs Tenable.io for the enterprise exposure management comparison.

When the work is scoped engagement delivery, native scanning, and AI reporting on a workspace your team operates, not a runtime API protection node deployed inline

Run scoped AppSec, pentest, vulnerability management, and API security engagements, generate AI reports, and ship findings through a branded portal on one workspace. SAST plus dependency analysis plus DAST plus external scanning live on the same engagement record alongside manual finding entry, the exception register, the retest workflow, and the activity audit trail. Pair alongside a Wallarm deployment when the security team runs runtime API protection on the wire. Start free.