What is Protect AI?
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.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Comprehensive security coverage across the entire AI/ML lifecycle
- +Specialized focus on AI-specific threats and vulnerabilities
- +Enterprise-grade features including supply-chain security and policy enforcement
- +Strong runtime threat detection capabilities
Cons
- -No public pricing makes budget planning difficult
- -Enterprise-only model may not be accessible for smaller teams
- -Requires consultation with sales team for quotes, adding friction to evaluation
- -Custom pricing based on deployment scale can lead to unpredictable costs as AI usage grows
Protect AI Pricing
- ✓Model vulnerability scanning
- ✓Supply-chain security
- ✓Runtime threat detection
- ✓Policy enforcement
- ✓Custom deployment scale
- ✓Dedicated support
Using Protect AI with Respan
Protect AI and Respan work together to provide comprehensive AI security and observability. Protect AI secures the ML pipeline while Respan monitors AI application runtime behavior and performance.
- ✓Secure AI models with Protect AI while monitoring their runtime behavior with Respan
- ✓Correlate security events from Protect AI with performance anomalies detected by Respan
- ✓Use Respan's prompt tracking to identify potential injection attacks that Protect AI can help prevent
- ✓Combine Protect AI's model security with Respan's LLM call monitoring for complete visibility
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Last verified: March 9, 2026