Visionality vs Speakeasy
Speakeasy positions. Visionality enforces — at every tier.
Speakeasy gives you an AI control plane at enterprise-tailored pricing. We give you a control plane with a database that cannot be rewritten, an envelope a stolen token cannot drain, and a continuous-evidence pack the auditor verifies offline — at $99/mo Hosted or Self-Hosted Free.
What to say in the room
The question comes from a specific seat. The answer should too.
Speakeasy's surface answer is on-path enforcement + identity-scoped-to-AI-surfaces. Here's how the same question lands one layer below the surface — where the audit-grade conversation actually happens.
CFO
"Where did the AI spend go, by team, by tool, by project, by month?"
CHRO
"Who has access to AI tools, and what happens when someone leaves?"
PMO
"How much did the redesign sprint cost us in AI tokens?"
CISO
"If a token leaks, what stops the attacker from draining our AI budget?"
The details
Capability-by-capability, where the postures diverge.
Use this when engineering needs to validate that the wire-level promise actually holds up at the database layer.
Posture
| Capability | Speakeasy | Visionality |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing tier | Enterprise-tailored only (no published price; 'Let's chat') | Self-Hosted Free / Hosted $99/mo / Enterprise quote |
| Source-availability | Closed-source | Open-foundation — gateway under Apache 2.0; fork, audit, deploy in your own cluster |
| Primary buyer | CIO + CISO + Chief AI Officer (enterprise procurement) | CFO co-signed by CISO — at every price tier including mid-market $99 |
| Time-to-deploy | "Most teams are up and running within a day" | 30 minutes for Self-Hosted; 5 minutes for Hosted onboarding |
Identity
| Capability | Speakeasy | Visionality |
|---|---|---|
| Identity provider support | Okta, Entra ID, SAML/OIDC | Okta, Entra ID, Auth0, Google Workspace, Custom SAML/OIDC via Clerk Enterprise |
| HRIS-bound revocation | Manual | Automatic via BambooHR / Workday / Rippling joiners-movers-leavers feed |
| Agent identity signed into envelope | Application metadata | agent_sub claim signed into the spend-token envelope; AAD-bound |
| Binding-key second factor | Not present | Token Authority v2 — AES-256-GCM AAD-bound; per-request HMAC; replay cache at the gateway |
Audit
| Capability | Speakeasy | Visionality |
|---|---|---|
| Audit log enforcement | Application-level append | SQL-role REVOKE on 5 audit tables — application role cannot UPDATE or DELETE audit rows |
| Per-task / per-Jira-epic attribution | Custom metadata you write | First-class --task / --memo / --url flags on key issuance; auto-tagged on every commit; Jira + Bitbucket connectors shipped |
| PII pre-flight | Detection + blocking | 12 detectors, fail-closed, runs before the call leaves your network |
Compliance
| Capability | Speakeasy | Visionality |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II posture | Achieved | In progress (six controls evidenced live; Type II audit window opening Q3 2026) |
| Continuous-evidence pack | Custom queries against the audit log | Productized — 12 collectors across SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + ISO 42001 + NIST AI RMF; signed JSON; flat CSV variant |
| Offline auditor verification | Not productized | vis-verify CLI — open-source Node script, re-derives the SHA-256 fingerprint locally, no network call |
Distribution
| Capability | Speakeasy | Visionality |
|---|---|---|
| Native model provider count | 5+ | 5 native + 300+ via OpenRouter pass-through + 1,600+ via LiteLLM pass-through — all wrapped in the envelope discipline |
| Source-control connectors | None named | GitHub Copilot + Bitbucket + Jira |
| HRIS connectors | None named | BambooHR + Workday + Rippling |
| Hyperscaler marketplaces | None disclosed | Azure Marketplace + AWS Marketplace (in flight) |
Honest take
When Speakeasy is the right answer.
If the buyer is an enterprise CIO with an Okta integration team, a procurement cycle measured in quarters, a budget that easily supports an enterprise-tailored AI Control Plane, and a SaaS-collab connector surface (Salesforce / Slack / HubSpot) at the center of their AI workflow — Speakeasy is the cleaner fit. We don't compete on OpenAPI-to-connector generation or on enterprise SaaS-collab connector breadth. We compete on whether the audit row is enforced at the database role layer, whether the spend-token envelope carries a binding key, whether the HRIS feed auto-revokes, and whether the auditor can verify the evidence pack offline.
If those questions are being asked at your company — and increasingly they are at any company past Series A — you should be looking at us.
See it live, in your stack.
30-minute deploy. Bring your own LLM keys. Same wire-level surface area as any AI gateway — your existing SDK code works unchanged.