Compare · Authnull vs Silverfort

Silverfort is a platform. Authnull is the layer that just closes the gap.

Silverfort genuinely pioneered agentless identity protection — and it's a serious, broad platform. But a platform is a project: an enterprise quote, a rollout, a security team to run it. If what you actually need is a factor on AD, RADIUS, Windows, and Linux — running this week, at a price you can see — that's a narrower job, and it's the one we do.

Compare what it costsWalk it with an engineer

Both products live in the same place your IdP can't reach. The question isn't whether the gap gets covered — it's how much platform, time, and budget you want to spend covering it.

The honest version
Need a full ITDR + NHI platform at enterprise scale?
Silverfort is a strong, mature choice. If you have the team and budget to run it, buy the platform.
Need the MFA gap closed fast, at a visible price?
That's Authnull — a focused layer, flat pricing, free tier, live this week.
Running Silverfort already?
Keep it. Authnull coexists and can take the enforcement paths you'd rather not pay platform rates for.
Where Silverfort is genuinely good

Silverfort didn't follow this category. It largely created it.

Agentless MFA on protocols that were never built to support it was a genuinely hard problem, and Silverfort solved it well. We're not going to wave that away — here's what it does that earns the respect.

Agentless by design

It inspects authentication traffic instead of installing on every endpoint — clever, and a real advantage in sprawling estates.

Service accounts & NHIs

Discovering and protecting non-human identities is a Silverfort strength, and most tools barely try.

ITDR depth

Identity threat detection and response across the estate is a whole product line. If you need that, it's real.

Enterprise scale

Proven in very large, very complex AD environments with the support and references to match.

So where do we come in? All of that is platform. Platforms get bought through procurement, scoped into a rollout, and operated by a team. A lot of organizations don't have that finding — they have one: enforce MFA on the infrastructure paths the auditor flagged. That's a smaller, sharper job, and it shouldn't require buying a platform to do it.

The shape of the decision

A platform you adopt, or a layer you switch on.

This isn't a coverage argument — Silverfort can cover these paths. It's a commitment argument. One is an enterprise platform decision; the other is a line item you can turn on this week and read the price of today.

Silverfort — the platform
adopt & operate
WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN IT
Enterprise sales cyclecontact sales
Custom annual quotenot published
Integration & rollout projectweeks+
Broad platform surface to learnMFA · ITDR · NHI
Security team to operateongoing

Worth it when you genuinely need the platform's full breadth. Heavy when you just need the gap closed.

Authnull — the layer
switch it on
WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN IT
One focused enforcement layer
Flat published price
Free tier · buy online
Live this week
One job, done well
No dedicated team
Coexists with yours

Not a platform — on purpose. The scope is the MFA gap on your infrastructure, and the whole experience is built to close it fast.

Where they actually differ

Honest, dimension by dimension.

Both cover the identity gap — so this isn't a checkmark contest. It's about how the job gets bought, deployed, and run. Where Silverfort leads, we say so.

DimensionSilverfortAuthnull
Agentless AD / Kerberos MFA
Kerberos · NTLM · LDAP
Its flagship strength — enforces MFA by inspecting authentication traffic, no per-endpoint agent. Genuinely strong here.
Covered
A factor challenged at the domain-logon path, agent-optional — including local and break-glass accounts.
Service accounts & NHIs
non-human identities
A real differentiator: discovery and protection of service accounts and machine identities is a core Silverfort capability.
Covered
Service and break-glass accounts sit in the same policy as human ones — solid, though NHI discovery isn't our headline.
ITDR / threat detection
identity threat response
A full product line — risk engine, detections, and response across the identity estate. If you need ITDR, this is real depth.
Coexists
Not our product. Authnull enforces and logs cleanly into your SIEM/ITDR rather than trying to replace it.
VPN & RADIUS
RADIUS · 802.1X
Covered within the platform's authentication reach.
Covered
RADIUS MFA in front of every VPN and gateway — FortiGate, AnyConnect, GlobalProtect and more — in the same flat price.
Firewalls & network gear
TACACS+ · device admin
Focused on the identity-protocol layer; device-admin login (TACACS+) on switches and firewalls is less of a fit.
Covered
A factor on switch, router, and firewall administrative login alongside everything else.
Linux SSH / PAM
22 · PAM
Reachable through the platform's coverage of authentication.
Covered
SSH and PAM MFA pushed across the Linux fleet centrally, same logs as every other path.
Pricing model
how you buy
Custom enterprise quote, not published. Annual commitment, negotiated per environment.
Transparent
Flat published bands — $499/mo up to 500 identities, $900/mo up to 1,000. Free tier, buy online.
Time to value
deploy & operate
A platform adoption: integration project, rollout, and a security team to operate the breadth.
This week
Stand up enforcement on the flagged paths in days, with no dedicated team to run it.

ITDR and non-human-identity governance are Silverfort's territory — Authnull coexists rather than competing there. The rows that decide a head-to-head are price, time-to-value, and how you buy.

Pricing worksheet

One of these prices is on the page. The other needs a sales call.

Silverfort is sold as an enterprise platform — pricing is custom, quoted, and committed annually. We won't put words in their mouth with a made-up number. What we can do is show you exactly what Authnull costs at your size, right now.

Identities250
Deployment

Self-hosted in your environment — data never leaves your network.

Silverfort · platformcustom quote
Contact sales
Enterprise pricing · annual commitment · quote on request
Authnull · Standardon-prem · ≤ 500
$499 /mo
Flat band — AD, RDP, RADIUS, firewalls, Linux, one line
You can read Authnull's price right now. Silverfort's takes a sales cycle.

Silverfort is a broad platform — MFA, ITDR, and non-human-identity protection. If you need that whole surface, the quote may well be worth it. This worksheet only argues that for closing an MFA gap, you shouldn't have to start with a sales call to learn the price.

Silverfort does not publish list pricing; figures are quoted per environment and we won't estimate them for you. Authnull bands shown are our published flat prices ($499/mo up to 500 identities, $900/mo up to 1,000 on-prem; SaaS $499/mo up to 500). Confirm any quote against your own paperwork — this worksheet is for scoping, not a contract.

Adoption path

Start narrow. Prove it on the audit finding. Expand only if you want to.

You don't need a platform decision to close an audit finding. Put Authnull on the paths that failed, see value in days, and decide the bigger questions later — with or without Silverfort in the picture.

01

Close the finding

Point Authnull at the exact paths your auditor flagged — AD logon, RADIUS, RDP, Linux. Free tier or a flat band, no procurement cycle.

Value in days, not a quarterNo platform commitment
02

Coexist

Already have Silverfort? Keep it for ITDR and NHI governance, and let Authnull carry the enforcement paths you'd rather not pay platform rates for.

No rip-and-replaceTrim platform spend where you can
03

Expand — if it fits

If Authnull's enforcement is all the gap needed, scale it across the estate on flat bands. If you genuinely need the platform, you'll know — and we'll tell you straight.

Predictable flat pricingHonest about when it isn't us
See your gap

Not sure you need the whole platform? Let's find out together.

Twenty minutes on your real environment — we'll tell you honestly whether a focused layer closes your gap or you genuinely need more. Or start free and enforce MFA on AD, RADIUS, Windows, and Linux this week.

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