Audience
Security teams and regulated organizations needing to run AI-powered vulnerability research, code analysis, remediation, and pentesting entirely within infrastructure they control
About Altar-1
Aikido Altar is an open-weight security model built to bring frontier-grade defensive security intelligence into infrastructure organizations' control. It is designed for sovereign security environments where sensitive source code, architecture documentation, vulnerability findings, and other internal context cannot be sent to third-party inference services. Altar is based on GLM-5.3 and uses quantization and expert pruning to reduce the model from 1.51 TB at full precision to 328 GB while preserving most of the parent model’s reasoning and security capabilities. It retains 168 of the original 256 routed experts per backbone expert layer and uses a W4A16 representation, making deployment more practical for agentic security workloads with large and growing context windows. Expert selection was calibrated using internal pentesting traces and multilingual data, with no customer data involved, to preserve cybersecurity, coding, and language understanding.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$350 per month
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Integrations
API:
Yes, Altar-1 offers API access
No integrations listed.
Company Information
Aikido Security
Founded: 2022
Belgium
www.aikido.dev/blog/aikido-altar-open-weight-ai-sovereign-security
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Live Online
Videos
Support
24/7 Live Support
Online
Altar-1 Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Altar-1 work with?
Altar-1 works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Altar-1 support in their product?
Altar-1 supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Altar-1 offer?
Altar-1 offers support via 24/7 live support and online.
Q: Does Altar-1 have an API?
Yes, Altar-1 has an API.
Q: What type of training does Altar-1 provide?
Altar-1 provides training in the form of documentation, live online, and videos.
Q: How much does Altar-1 cost?
Pricing for Altar-1 starts at $350 per month.
