AI Governance Safety & Evaluation Paid

Protecto

API-first sensitive-data protection for AI and application workflows

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PricingPaid
Starting price$250/mo
Free planNo
Free trialYes
APIYes
Open sourceNo
DeploymentSelf Hosted
Last verifiedAugust 2, 2026
Overview

Tool overview

Protecto is listed under AI Governance Safety & Evaluation AI tools.

Summary

What is Protecto?

Protecto identifies, masks, tokenizes, and selectively unmasks sensitive data in applications, analytics, logs, RAG pipelines, agents, and MCP workflows. It provides real-time and asynchronous APIs with policy, authorization, audit, and enterprise deployment controls.

Best fit

Best for

Engineering teams protecting sensitive data in AI and application pipelines

Audience

Who is it for?

AI engineersData-security teamsPrivacy teamsApplication developers
Recommendation

Decision note

Accepted for editorial review with a 90/100 candidate score.

Capabilities

Key features

Sensitive-data discovery and context-preserving masking

Tokenization and authorized unmask APIs

Real-time and asynchronous processing

SaaS, VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment

Workflows

Use cases

Protect data sent to LLM applications

Mask PII and PHI in logs and analytics

Secure RAG and agent pipelines

Enforce data controls around MCP tool calls

Strengths

Pros

  • Publishes transparent startup pricing
  • Provides a documented API and trial
  • Supports sovereign enterprise deployment options
Considerations

Limitations

Protecto reduces sensitive-data exposure but cannot identify every organization-specific secret automatically. Customers must validate policies, entity coverage, authorization, re-identification risk, application behavior, and regulatory requirements.

Cost

Pricing details

Pricing modelPaid
Starting price$250/mo
Free planNo
Free trialYes
Pricing context

Billing options

MonthlyCustom Enterprise
Pricing context

Pricing note

The official SaaS page lists a 14-day free trial with 1,000 API calls. Starter costs $250 per month, Growth $500 per month, Scale $750 per month, and Enterprise is custom.

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Compatibility

Supported languages

  • English
Connectivity

Integrations

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Claude

OpenAI models

Google Gemini

Custom applications

Specs

Technical details

PlatformsWeb, API
Multilingual supportUnknown
Login requiredYes
Open sourceNo
DeploymentSelf Hosted
CompanyProtecto
Editions / plansFree, Basic, Professional, Organization, and Custom plans
Data confidenceHigh
Last verifiedAugust 2, 2026
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Protecto identifies, masks, tokenizes, and selectively unmasks sensitive data in applications, analytics, logs, RAG pipelines, agents, and MCP workflows. It provides real-time and asynchronous APIs with policy, authorization, audit, and enterprise deployment controls.
Engineering teams protecting sensitive data in AI and application pipelines
The listed pricing model for Protecto is Paid. Pricing can change, so users should verify the latest plan details on the official website.
Yes. The current profile indicates that a free trial is available.
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