Comparing cloud security platforms
Every vendor on your shortlist claims attack paths, agentless scanning and multi-cloud coverage. The words are identical; the products are not. These are the seven questions that actually separate them — and we answer them for ourselves, in public, including the places where the answer does not flatter us.
What you will not find on these pages
Claims about what anyone else’s product can or cannot do. Cloud security platforms ship weekly, and a page asserting a competitor’s gap is out of date within a quarter — at which point it is simply wrong, and everyone who checks will know. So we ask the questions and answer only for Onam. Take the same seven to every vendor on your list, including us.
The seven questions
- 1How many clouds get first-class treatment?
- 2Is the analysis cross-cloud, or per-cloud silos side by side?
- 3Agentless — and how long to first finding?
- 4How does it prioritise — severity labels or business impact?
- 5Does it catch toxic combinations across engines?
- 6Is compliance evidence continuous or point-in-time?
- 7Does coverage span code to runtime?
Head to head
Each page answers the seven for Onam, then says where they are stronger than us.
Onam vs Wiz
Wiz is on nearly every CSPM shortlist, and deservedly — it defined how most buyers think about agentless cloud security. If you are evaluating both, these are the seven questions worth asking each of us.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Orca
Orca made agentless scanning credible to buyers who had been told an agent was unavoidable. If it is on your shortlist alongside us, run these seven questions against both.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Prisma Cloud
Prisma Cloud usually arrives as part of a wider Palo Alto conversation, which changes the evaluation. If you are weighing it against us, these seven questions apply to both.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Defender for Cloud
Defender for Cloud is the default consideration for Azure-centred estates, and often the incumbent by the time anyone evaluates. These seven questions are worth asking of both of us.
Read the comparisonThe only claim you can check today
We have no public reference customers. Rather than ask you to believe a comparison table, run a read-only scan against a single account and tell us whether the attack paths are real. If they are noise, say so — that is worth more to us than a signature.
Last reviewed 15 August 2026.