Skyflow for AI Agent Security: Features, Pricing, and Alternatives

In this article, we'll examine Skyflow's approach to agentic security, explore their key features, and compare their offering to comprehensive authentication platforms like WorkOS.

What is Skyflow?

Skyflow is an API-first data privacy vault that isolates and protects sensitive customer data using tokenization and what it calls “polymorphic encryption.”

The company has publicly raised around $100 million in disclosed equity financing and counts customers including GoodRx and IBM (and mentions of Walmart in executive commentary).

Its platform is used in regulated-industry contexts (fintech, healthcare, enterprise SaaS) where compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS and CCPA are central.

In December 2024 Skyflow launched its “Agentic AI Security and Privacy Layer,” and in mid-2025 it announced its “MCP Data Protection Layer” for AI-agent workflows. The company reports more than 2 billion API calls per quarter to its vault.

Key Features and Capabilities

Data Privacy Vault Architecture

Skyflow provides a zero-trust data vault that isolates sensitive data from application infrastructure. The platform uses patented polymorphic encryption—a technique that allows operations on encrypted data without decryption.

This means you can run queries, analytics, and AI inference on sensitive data while it remains encrypted. The vault supports fine-grained access controls at column and row levels, with all access logged for audit purposes.

Agentic AI Security Layer

Skyflow's AI Gateway provides "two-way data rehydration" for agentic AI workflows. When an AI agent needs to access sensitive data, the gateway detects PII in prompts, de-identifies it before sending to the LLM, then rehydrates the response with original sensitive data only when access controls permit. This prevents sensitive information from being exposed to AI model providers.

The MCP Data Protection Layer extends this protection to Model Context Protocol connections, securing data flows between AI agents and external tools, databases, or APIs.

Real-Time Detection and Tokenization

Skyflow's LLM PII detection identifies sensitive information during AI inference, automatically masking or tokenizing data based on predefined policies. The platform can detect over 50 types of sensitive data across multiple languages and formats, handling de-identification automatically while maintaining data utility.

Compliance and Data Residency

The platform provides built-in compliance controls for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CCPA, and the EU AI Act. Global audit logging captures every data access event, with data residency support for regulatory mandates. Integration capabilities extend to major cloud platforms, data warehouses, and RAG systems.

How Skyflow Handles AI Agent Data Privacy

Skyflow's approach to agentic security focuses on letting AI agents reason over sensitive data without exposing it to unauthorized parties.

Their solution inserts a privacy layer between agents and data sources. When an agent requests customer information, Skyflow applies tokenization or encryption and returns protected data. The agent can reason over tokens or encrypted values but never sees raw sensitive data unless access policies permit decryption.

For RAG workflows, Skyflow can tokenize data before embedding, then detokenize results when the agent needs to present information to authorized users. Skyflow maintains the mapping between tokens and real values, releasing sensitive data only when cryptographic access controls verify authorization.

Pricing and Plans

Skyflow does not publish public pricing tiers.

The platform is available through AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Skyflow offers a free trial for teams evaluating the platform, though production deployments require enterprise agreements.

Skyflow vs. WorkOS

What Skyflow Offers

Skyflow provides a specialized data privacy vault with recent extensions for AI agent security. Their polymorphic encryption enables operations on encrypted data without decryption, and their AI Gateway adds de-identification layers for LLM workflows.

The platform focuses narrowly on data protection—encrypting, tokenizing, and controlling access to sensitive information.

This specialization means Skyflow lacks comprehensive authentication capabilities. There's no SSO, Directory Sync, Admin Portal, or SCIM provisioning. If your AI agents need to authenticate users or integrate with enterprise identity providers, you'll need additional vendors.

Why WorkOS Is the Proven Choice

WorkOS delivers enterprise-grade authentication and authorization that AI applications require for production deployments. While Skyflow focuses on data privacy vaults, WorkOS provides the comprehensive authentication platform that enterprises demand: Single Sign-On supporting all major identity providers, Directory Sync, Multi-Factor Authentication, Admin Portal, and enterprise audit logs.

Battle-Tested at Scale: WorkOS is proven with thousands of enterprises requiring SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. Our platform handles authentication for mission-critical applications. We've solved the hard problems of enterprise auth through years of production experience.

Comprehensive Platform, Not Point Solution: Skyflow addresses one piece of the agentic security puzzle—data privacy—but AI applications need far more. WorkOS provides the full authentication suite: SSO, Directory Sync, Fine-Grained Authorization, Admin Portal, and audit logs. Everything in one platform, not a patchwork of vendors.

Production-Ready Today: Every WorkOS feature is generally available and fully supported. There are no experimental beta flags or "coming soon" roadmap items. When you integrate WorkOS, you're deploying technology that's proven at enterprise scale.

Enterprise Features Skyflow Lacks: Skyflow doesn't provide SSO integration, Directory Sync, Admin Portal, SCIM support, or MFA for protecting privileged agent operations. These aren't nice-to-have features—they're table stakes for enterprise B2B applications.

Support That Matches Your Stakes: WorkOS provides 99.99% uptime SLA, dedicated support, and white-glove onboarding. We treat that responsibility seriously with infrastructure designed for reliability.

Developer Experience: Integrate WorkOS SSO in an afternoon, not weeks. Our APIs feature comprehensive documentation and SDKs in every major language.

The Right Choice for Production AI Applications

For B2B SaaS companies building AI agents that enterprises will deploy, WorkOS is the clear choice. While Skyflow offers data privacy capabilities for regulated industries, WorkOS provides the comprehensive authentication and authorization platform that every enterprise application needs.

WorkOS is built for production. Skyflow is exploring emerging patterns in data privacy. Choose the foundation that enterprises trust.

Getting Started with Skyflow

Organizations interested in Skyflow typically begin with a consultation to assess data protection requirements. The free trial allows engineering teams to test the vault architecture and tokenization workflows.

Implementation involves identifying sensitive data types, defining access policies, and integrating the vault API into application code. Skyflow provides API documentation and SDKs for major languages. Support is available through enterprise agreements.

Final Thoughts

Skyflow represents an interesting approach to data privacy in the age of AI agents. Their polymorphic encryption enables novel privacy-preserving operations for organizations in heavily regulated industries with extreme data protection requirements.

However, Skyflow solves one part of agentic security—data privacy—but doesn't address authentication, authorization, or access management. Organizations adopting Skyflow will need additional platforms for comprehensive security.

WorkOS provides the proven, enterprise-ready authentication and authorization platform that production AI applications require. We deliver the comprehensive foundation that enterprises build on: battle-tested SSO, reliable Directory Sync, fine-grained authorization, and audit logging—all with 99.99% uptime SLA.

For teams building AI applications that enterprises will trust and deploy at scale, WorkOS is the confident choice.

Ready to ship enterprise-ready authentication for your AI application? Start building with WorkOS today and integrate SSO, Directory Sync, and Fine-Grained Authorization in hours, not months.