Head-to-Head

Reco vs. Obsidian

Reco shows what's connected. Obsidian shows what each connection actually did, with the activity evidence to act.

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Reco is a mile wide and an inch deep. They'll claim 200+ apps, but real analytics only exist for a small subset."

— Security Leader, Fortune 50 Bank

300×
increase in AI agent activity, 2025
40%
of agents carry medium-to-critical risk
800+
risky agents in avg enterprise environment
TWO DIFFERENT BETS

Reco vs. Obsidian

Use Case
Reco
Posture with evidence
Surfaces which configurations and permissions are risky
Identity-linked activity evidence tied to each posture finding, with proof app owners can act on
SaaS supply chain
Inventories OAuth integrations and SaaS-to-SaaS connections
Traces what each integration accessed, who it affected, and the blast radius across the SaaS stack
AI agent security
Recent platform repositioning: agent inventory, ownership, access mapping across 225+ apps
Native SaaS activity behind every agent: what each agent's credentials actually reach inside the connected apps, who can invoke it, and what it did at runtime
Connector design
"SaaS App Factory" prioritizes coverage breadth; API volume against enterprise apps can run significantly higher
Production-safe connectors with bulk API support, granular RBAC scoped per app, 99.99% uptime
Investigation depth
Dashboards and visualization for surface-level review; custom investigations and alerting capped
OQL queries return investigation-ready answers in minutes, with customizable detections and activity-based hunts
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW

Why Obsidian beats Reco

Know how access is actually used

Reco surfaces which SaaS apps and OAuth integrations exist in your environment. Obsidian shows what each identity and integration actually did, when, and what data they touched. One maps the surface. The other shows the activity underneath.

See the real SaaS supply chain risk, not just the OAuth list

Reco inventories which integrations are connected and the scopes they hold. Obsidian traces what each integration actually accessed, who it affected, and where the blast radius landed. The difference between knowing an integration exists and knowing whether it's a problem.

Connectors built for production scale

Reco's low-code "SaaS App Factory" prioritizes connector breadth. In one Fortune 50 insurer environment, that design generated nearly 20x more Okta API calls per day than Obsidian. Avoidable load on the SaaS systems your business runs on.
See how Obsidian compares in your environment.
Bring a SaaS-governance, OAuth , access-review, or incident-response workflow. We'll show where inventory ends and activity - backed context begins.
FAQ

Common questions

Speed of coverage and depth of coverage aren't the same thing. Reco's low-code model puts a name onto the connector list quickly, but the analytics behind each name vary widely. Obsidian's connectors are enterprise-grade across the apps that matter most: Salesforce, Workday, M365, the IdPs, the AI platforms. Fast coverage on apps you can't investigate doesn't shorten the work. It just moves it downstream.

Mapping which integrations exist is the starting point. Obsidian traces what each integration actually accessed, who triggered it, and where the impact landed. In one global insurer environment running both platforms, Reco showed a malicious Salesforce Data Loader integration was connected. Obsidian identified it as compromised and defined the blast radius. As one Obsidian customer running a Reco side-by-side put it: "at least you guys have the data, you can mature it." The underlying activity model is the moat.

Reco's repositioning is around agent inventory, ownership, and access mapping across 225+ apps. That's the surface. The bedrock is what those agents are actually doing inside the connected SaaS apps. Agents authenticate through OAuth tokens and service accounts that reach into Salesforce, Workday, M365, and the rest. The toxic combination (what each agent's credentials reach inside those apps, who can invoke it, what data moved when it ran) forms in the SaaS layer, not the agent layer. Without native SaaS activity, an AI agent platform inventories agents but doesn't see what they're doing. Full argument in The Architecture Gap No AI Agent Security Tool Is Built to Close.

99.99% uptime over the last 12 months. Regional hosting across the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. Granular RBAC scoped per app. Production-safe connectors with bulk-API support. Obsidian connects to your most critical SaaS apps and collects activity data without disrupting them. Learn more about our certifications and attestations.

These aren't AI-generated summaries. They come from real customers — including Fortune 100 and Global 2000 environments — where Obsidian and Reco were evaluated head-to-head.