Vendor comparison

Halo vs Airia

Airia and Halo both organize AI governance around Discover, Secure, Govern, and Optimize. Halo carries enforcement to the device, the browser, the gateway, and a sandboxed agent runtime, and you can start today with published pricing.

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The short version

Airia’s public materials describe one platform for building, securing, governing, and optimizing agents, with an MCP gateway that lists more than 1,000 pre-configured integrations.
Halo covers the same ground and enforces policy where AI runs, on devices and in browsers, at gateways that keep credentials away from agents, and in a sandboxed runtime for each agent.
Halo budgets can pause or stop spend at the account, agent, and user level, and self-serve plans with published pricing let your team start today.

How Airia describes itself

Airia presents itself as an AI security and governance platform with one control layer for agents, models, tools, data access, runtime policy, and audit-ready evidence. Its site is organized around Discover, Secure, Govern, and Optimize.

Public materials also describe tools for building and orchestrating agents, an MCP gateway with more than 1,000 pre-configured integrations, a routing engine, agent constraints, red-team testing for agents, and managed SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises deployment. This summary reflects public materials reviewed in October 2026.

How Halo approaches AI governance

Halo is an AI governance platform for simple, secure, and efficient AI. It discovers the AI in use, enforces policy where the work happens, keeps the evidence reviewers trust, and keeps spend in check.

Discovery runs through Halo Browser (Chrome and Edge, plus Safari on macOS) and Halo Endpoint (macOS and Windows, with Linux coming soon). Enforcement runs through model, MCP and tool, and API gateways, the Halo AI Gateway for desktop AI apps and coding agents, and a secure agent runtime.

Side by side

How Halo and Airia compare

Comparison of Halo and Airia by dimension
Dimension	Halo	Airia
Primary focus	Halo Available now Simple, secure, and efficient AI, from discovery to enforcement, evidence, and spend control in one platform.	Airia Public materials describe one platform for building, securing, governing, and optimizing agents, models, and tools.
Discovery surfaces	Halo Guided rollout Halo Browser (Chrome and Edge, plus Safari on macOS) and Halo Endpoint (macOS and Windows, with Linux coming soon) find AI sites, extensions, apps, IDE tools, MCP configuration, and local runtimes, with metadata-first collection. On the roadmap Read-only discovery for cloud AI services, SaaS AI, and code repositories.	Airia Public materials describe discovery of agents, LLM API calls, MCP servers, browser AI activity, endpoint AI, and SaaS tools.
Enforcement on devices and browsers	Halo Guided rollout Halo Endpoint audits or blocks unapproved AI apps on macOS and Windows, and Halo Browser audits, warns, or blocks on supported AI sites, with content checks when your organization approves them.	Airia Public materials describe agent constraints that enforce operational limits across tools, data, and models, along with guardrails and an MCP gateway.
Agent execution	Halo Available now A sandboxed runtime with non-root workloads, default-deny network egress, signed configuration, and quarantine and release. Halo Agents launch with model choice, app connections, policy, approvals, and budget set together.	Airia Public materials describe tools to build, ship, and run agents inside a governed runtime with centralized policies.
MCP and tools	Halo Available now The MCP and tool gateway applies agent identity, tool-level policy, human approval, and brokered credentials to each call, with 1,000+ apps in the Halo connection catalog.	Airia Public materials describe an MCP gateway with more than 1,000 pre-configured integrations.
Cost and routing	Halo Available now Account, agent, and per-user budgets that notify, pause, or stop, cost analytics by agent and model, Halo Auto, and configurable route profiles with fallback paths.	Airia Public materials describe a routing engine that keeps workflows running when a provider fails or changes pricing, and cost optimization with visibility, forecasting, and enforcement.
Security testing	Halo Available now On-demand security audits check each agent’s runtime controls against a catalog that references OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF guidance. On the roadmap Red-team and evaluation evidence linked to each AI system, with built-in prompt-injection and data-leak tests.	Airia Public materials describe red-team testing that validates agent security before production.
Deployment and buying path	Halo Available now Self-serve plans start at $99 per month with published pricing, and our team guides enterprise rollout of Halo Browser and Halo Endpoint. On the roadmap A documented private cloud deployment and an EU region with tenant-pinned data residency.	Airia Public materials describe managed SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises deployment, and invite readers to request a demo.

Why Halo

Why choose Halo over Airia

Simple, secure, and efficient AI, governed where it runs.

Guided rollout

Enforcement on devices and in browsers

Halo Endpoint can audit or block unapproved AI apps on macOS and Windows, and Halo Browser can audit, warn, or block on supported AI sites.

A sandbox for every agent

Agents run as non-root workloads with default-deny network egress and signed configuration, and operators can quarantine and release them at any time.

Credentials agents never see

Provider and app credentials stay bound at the Halo gateway. Agents receive scoped capabilities and never hold raw keys.

Budgets that act

Account, agent, and per-user budgets can notify owners, pause new operations, or stop active deployments, and Halo Auto picks a model for each request from a curated pool.

The AI apps your people already use

The Halo AI Gateway connects Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT Desktop, and Codex CLI to models and tools that Halo authorizes, meters, and records.

Start today with published pricing

Self-serve plans start at $99 per month, and our team guides enterprise rollout of Halo Browser and Halo Endpoint.

Roadmap

What Halo is building next

Each of these extends the controls Halo runs today.

Capabilities marked coming soon or on the roadmap reflect current plans and may change.

Coming soon
AI system registry and intake
Register each AI system with an owner, purpose, and risk tier, linked to the agents, apps, and AI Gateway clients Halo already sees.
Coming soon
Plain-language policy drafting
Describe a rule in plain language and get a draft policy that passes validation and simulation before a person approves it.
On the roadmap
Red-team and evaluation evidence
Import results from evaluation and red-team tools as evidence linked to each AI system, with built-in prompt-injection and data-leak tests.
On the roadmap
Private cloud and an EU region
A documented private cloud deployment and an EU region with tenant-pinned data residency.

Buyer checklist

Questions to ask in your evaluation

Bring these to each vendor you evaluate. Here is how Halo answers them.

Which capabilities are generally available today, and which are preview or planned?
How Halo answers
Halo labels each capability as available, guided rollout, preview, coming soon, or on the roadmap, on this page and across our site.
Does the platform enforce policy on each surface, or only report what it finds?
How Halo answers
Halo enforces on each surface it covers. It blocks unapproved AI apps on devices, audits, warns, or blocks on supported AI sites, and allows, denies, or holds agent calls at the gateway.
Where do provider keys and app credentials live, and can an agent ever read them?
How Halo answers
Credentials stay bound at the Halo gateway. Agents receive scoped capabilities and never see raw keys.
Can an agent route around the controls?
How Halo answers
Agents that Halo runs have default-deny network egress, so their model and tool traffic goes through the Halo gateways.
Can budgets stop spend, or only report it?
How Halo answers
Halo budgets can notify owners, pause new operations, or stop active deployments at the account, agent, and user level.

Sources and review

Last reviewed October 19, 2026. Information about Airia comes from public materials and may change. Product names belong to their owners. Capabilities marked coming soon or on the roadmap reflect current plans and may change. If you spot something out of date, please let us know.

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