Agari vs Palisade in 2026
How Agari and Palisade compare on operating model, pricing, and fit for IT teams and MSPs.
Our verdict: Pick Palisade if you want an AI agent to carry the work through enforcement, whether you manage one domain or thousands. Pick Agari if your team prefers a traditional, operator-led workflow.
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Which one is right for you?
Best for Enterprise security teams protecting their own domains
Best for MSPs and IT teams responsible for multiple domains
- You prefer a more traditional Agari workflow with people involved in each enforcement step.
- Your buying criteria center on vendor-specific enterprise requirements.
- Pick Agari if you're an enterprise security team protecting your own brand's domains and want a vendor-managed deployment, with Fortra staff creating, hosting, and administering SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records under contract.
- Pick Agari if your SOC needs DMARC threat data flowing into Splunk, Azure Sentinel, or Palo Alto Networks, or you're already consolidating on Fortra's bundled email security stack.
- You run an MSP, or an internal IT or security team, responsible for multiple domains.
- You want an AI agent to investigate issues, configure authentication, and move domains toward p=reject.
- Teams already using Claude, OpenAI, or other AI tools can bring the same agent-led operating model to DMARC.
IT-team plans start at $19 a month, sized by email volume. Start with a 15-day full-product trial; nothing is charged until it ends.
Where the day-to-day work actually differs
| Feature | Agari | Palisade |
|---|---|---|
| Enforcement | ||
| Agent does the enforcement work and evaluates policy readiness; you approve each stepWhether a product investigates senders, drafts fixes, and proposes policy steps for review.Fortra advertises automated DMARC deployment and enforcement; per its Automation and Hosting Features brief, admins approve senders per domain using EasySPF, EasyDKIM, and 3rd-Party Sender Intelligence, or Fortra staff administer records under a hosted deployment, rather than an autonomous agent executing the enforcement steps itself (checked 2026-07-18). | No agent-led workflow | Agent drafts and proposes |
| DMARC report monitoringWhether a product collects and analyzes DMARC reports.Aggregate and forensic report analysis with an executive dashboard, confirmed on Fortra's product and DMARC solution pages. | Executive dashboard analysis | Agent analyzes reports |
| Limits & metering | ||
| Unlimited report retention on every paid planHow long a product keeps DMARC report history.Fortra does not publish report retention terms (checked 2026-07-18). | Retention not published | Paid plans unlimited |
| API access on every planWhether every plan includes API access.Native APIs for SOC automation are advertised, but Fortra publishes no plan tiers, so API availability across quotes cannot be confirmed (checked 2026-07-18). | Not confirmed across plans | API on every plan |
| MSP operations | ||
| Portfolio-based MSP per-domain pricingWhether MSP pricing follows the number of client domains.The pricing page is a quote-request form; Fortra's FAQ bands price by user count, not domains (checked 2026-07-18). | No per-domain pricing | Per client domain |
| Multi-tenant client managementWhether one account can manage separate client-domain portfolios.Nothing on Fortra's DMARC Protection product or pricing pages addresses MSP operations; multi-tenant client management is not advertised (checked 2026-07-18). | Not advertised | Multi-tenant management |
| ConnectWise, HaloPSA & Autotask integrationsWhether a product connects directly to the named PSA tools.Fortra's integrations copy lists SOAR/SIEM platforms (Splunk, Azure Sentinel, Palo Alto Networks); it does not advertise PSA integrations (checked 2026-07-18). | PSA integrations not advertised | Native PSA integrations |
| Hosted records & DNS | ||
| Hosted DMARC, SPF & MTA-STS recordsWhether the named email-authentication records are hosted.Fortra hosts DMARC, SPF, and DKIM records per its Automation and Hosting Features brief; MTA-STS hosting is not advertised (checked 2026-07-18). | MTA-STS not advertised | Hosted email records |
| SPF flatteningWhether SPF records are flattened to avoid DNS lookup limits.Agari's EasySPF inventories senders and builds SPF records per domain; SPF flattening or lookup-limit handling is not advertised (checked 2026-07-18). | Not advertised | Hosted SPF flattening |
| Hosted records on redundant managed DNSWhether hosted records are served through redundant managed DNS infrastructure.Fortra's hosting brief advertises delivery guarantees for hosted deployments but publishes no DNS uptime SLA (checked 2026-07-18). | DNS SLA not published | Redundant managed DNS |
| AI and automation access | ||
| Native APIs for SOC automationsWhether the vendor advertises programmatic data access rather than dashboard-only work.Fortra says DMARC Protection includes native APIs for SOC custom automations and makes DMARC threat data accessible. That product page does not advertise a REST or GraphQL reference or plan availability (checked 2026-08-27). Palisade publishes a REST API. Source (2026-08-27) | Native APIs advertised | REST API published |
| MCP server for connecting AI assistants to domain dataWhether an AI assistant can reach the product's data directly.Fortra's DMARC Protection page lists native APIs and preconfigured SIEM and SOAR integrations, but does not advertise an MCP server or an AI-assistant integration for DMARC Protection (checked 2026-08-27). Palisade publishes an MCP server. Source (2026-08-27) | No MCP server listed | MCP server published |
| AI and data science for DMARC reportingWhether the vendor advertises AI or machine learning inside the product and states what it does.Fortra says its Reporting & Analytics aggregates DMARC data with AI and data science, and describes predictive intelligence and smart automation that detect phishing campaigns, identify senders, and analyze DMARC-record data (checked 2026-08-27). Palisade's agent investigates senders, drafts SPF and DKIM fixes, and proposes each policy step for human approval. Source (2026-08-27) | AI report analysis | Agent drafts fixes |
| DMARC threat-data feeds outside the dashboardWhether product data can reach another security system without someone exporting it from the dashboard.Fortra says DMARC threat data can feed SIEM and SOAR platforms, including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, through open APIs. It does not advertise scheduled exports or webhooks on that page (checked 2026-08-27). Source (2026-08-27) | Open API data feeds | REST API published |
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Palisade 91 vs Agari 55, and why
Both products are scored on the same eight dimensions the comparison hub uses, so the figures here are the figures there. Four are derived from vendor facts that each carry a source and a checked date. Four are editorial, marked as such below, and each states its reasoning and its source.
Each dimension is out of 10 and the total is the raw sum out of 80, rescaled to 100 — the raw figure is printed beside it so the conversion is checkable rather than a black box. Scored on what each vendor publishes, not on how the product feels in use. Editorial dimensions last reviewed 2026-09-02.
How reachable the product is from your own software and AI tools. 10 = a documented API on every plan plus a published MCP server. 6 = an API, gated to a tier or to a sales conversation. 3 = no programmatic access advertised.
Fortra advertises native APIs for security workflows, but it publishes neither open DMARC Protection endpoint documentation nor an MCP server. Source (2026-08-28)
Palisade publishes a REST API and a remote MCP server on every plan, making the same domain data and remediation workflows available to connected software. Source (2026-08-30)
How much of the report analysis is done for you. 10 = the platform turns raw report data into a prioritised, actionable queue on its own.
The service combines DMARC analysis, sender intelligence, predictive threat detection, and security-system integrations into an enterprise workflow. Source (2026-08-28)
Report data is analysed into a prioritised list of sender, SPF, DKIM and DMARC issues, so nobody reads raw XML. Source (2026-08-30)
How much of the work the vendor's own software does. 10 = it identifies the sending sources, drafts the SPF and DKIM fixes each one needs, and proposes the next policy step. 6 = it applies the records for you, but a person decides what to fix and when to advance. 3 = it reports, and every change is yours to make. A vendor whose team does the work rather than its software scores here on the software alone.
Fortra hosts the record set and advertises automation around it, so record changes are applied in the product; a person still decides what to approve and when to advance enforcement. Source (2026-08-28)
The agent investigates each sender, drafts the SPF and DKIM changes it needs, and proposes the next policy step; a human approves before deployment. Source (2026-08-30)
10 = full pricing published. 6 = some tiers published, rest quote-gated. 3 = quote only.
Quote-based enterprise pricing, with price bands tied to organization user count. Source (2026-08-28)
10 = hosts the records for you. 6 = partial or add-on. 3 = you manage your own DNS.
10 = a genuine free plan. 6 = time-limited trial only. 3 = no free access.
No ongoing free plan or self-service trial is published for DMARC Protection. Source (2026-08-28)
No free plan: a 15-day full-product trial; nothing is charged until the trial ends Source (2026-08-30)
10 = a real MSP program with multi-tenant management. 6 = partial. 3 = none.
No product-specific MSP or multi-tenant programme is published for DMARC Protection. Source (2026-08-28)
How much work it takes to get a domain from p=none to p=reject. 10 = the platform (or the vendor's team) gets you there without manual DNS edits.
Fortra documents automated deployment tooling and an optional hosted service in which its staff administer SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. Source (2026-08-28)
The DMARC Agent detects when a domain's authentication and alignment are ready for the next policy stage and proposes the move, but a human still approves and applies it, so it is not fully hands-off. Source (2026-08-30)
Where Palisade and Agari actually differ
Each argument keeps the product screens, sourced comparison points, and supporting analysis together.
Managed service vs agent execution
How Agari gets a domain to p=reject
Agari's path to enforcement runs through sender-management tooling plus optional vendor service. 3rd-Party Sender Intelligence identifies who sends on a domain, EasySPF inventories senders so admins can approve them per domain, and EasyDKIM tracks selectors and key rotation. Customers either build their own records with these tools or turn record management over to Fortra, whose hosted option assigns Fortra staff to create, host, and administer SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records as part of the contract.
Agari
- Agent does the enforcement work and evaluates policy readiness; you approve each step: No agent-led workflow
- DMARC report monitoring: Executive dashboard analysis
Palisade
- Agent does the enforcement work and evaluates policy readiness; you approve each step: Agent drafts and proposes
- DMARC report monitoring: Agent analyzes reports
Palisade's agent executes that work directly. It reads report data to identify legitimate senders, configures SPF and DKIM, and progressively tightens each domain's policy to p=reject. The practical difference for an MSP: with Agari, progress depends on your admins working the approval queue or on Fortra's service team; with Palisade, the same enforcement steps run agent-executed across every client domain you manage, without buying a managed service to get there.
User-count pricing vs volume pricing
What Agari meters (and how Palisade prices)
Fortra publishes no prices for DMARC Protection. The pricing page is a quote-request form, and Fortra's own FAQ says price is dictated by the number of users at your organization, with bands under 100, up to 500, and 1,000 and beyond. Bundle discounts reward buying more Fortra products, and deployment help is offered through enterprise professional services tiers covering onboarding, training, enablement, and support. Third-party procurement data from Vendr lists typical contracts at $10,000 to $50,000 per year for mid-market deployments. Volume and retention terms are not published (checked 2026-07-18).
Agari
A relevant product screenshot was not available in the reviewed evidence.
- Unlimited report retention on every paid plan: Retention not published
- API access on every plan: Not confirmed across plans
Palisade
- Unlimited report retention on every paid plan: Paid plans unlimited
- API access on every plan: API on every plan
Palisade publishes its self-serve IT-team pricing: flat monthly plans sized by email volume from $19/month (20% off on annual billing) with 2 to 20 set-up domains by tier (adding domains is free and unlimited), unlimited report retention on paid plans and API access on every plan, and a 15-day full-product trial. MSPs receive a free NFR domain and quoted, portfolio-based per-client-domain pricing with no client email metering and a minimum of 5 client domains.
What each side charges
Three points on each published range: the cheapest plan, one in the middle, and the top of what the vendor publishes. Every plan on both sides is in the pricing section further down.
- Fortra DMARC Protection (formerly Agari)Custom - contact sales
Quote-based license priced by user-count band (under 100, up to 500, 1,000+ users per Fortra's pricing FAQ). DMARC reporting and analytics, 3rd-Party Sender Intelligence, EasySPF and EasyDKIM tooling.
- Hosted deployment optionCustom - contact sales
Fortra creates, hosts, and administers SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records with its own staff as part of the quoted contract.
- Email security bundles (Advanced / Elite)Custom - contact sales
DMARC Protection is included in Fortra's Advanced and Elite email security bundles (the Core bundle covers other Fortra email products); per Fortra's pricing FAQ, the more Email Security products purchased, the larger the multi-service discount.
- IT teams: up to 100,000 emails/mo$19/mo ($15/mo billed annually)
2 set-up domains (adding is unlimited), unlimited retention, every core feature
- IT teams: up to 1,000,000 emails/mo$99/mo ($79/mo billed annually)
Same product: 10 set-up domains, pick the tier that matches your sending
- Enterprise (more than 2.5M / month)Custom
Custom volume, retention, and terms
Enterprise deployment vs MSP scale
Who Agari actually serves
Fortra aims DMARC Protection at enterprise brand protection. The product page speaks to SOC teams: preconfigured Splunk, Azure Sentinel, and Palo Alto Networks integrations, threat feeds, takedown bundles, and enterprise professional services tiers for deployment. Nothing on the product or pricing pages addresses MSP operations. Multi-tenant client management, PSA integrations, and per-domain pricing an MSP could build margin on are not advertised (checked 2026-07-18), and Fortra's FAQ ties price to the number of users at your organization, a model that does not map to per-domain MSP margin.
Agari
- Portfolio-based MSP per-domain pricing: No per-domain pricing
- Multi-tenant client management: Not advertised
- ConnectWise, HaloPSA & Autotask integrations: PSA integrations not advertised
Palisade
- Portfolio-based MSP per-domain pricing: Per client domain
- Multi-tenant client management: Multi-tenant management
- ConnectWise, HaloPSA & Autotask integrations: Native PSA integrations
An MSP running DMARC across dozens or hundreds of client domains needs repeatable per-domain economics, PSA workflow, and enforcement that does not wait on a service engagement per client. Agari's model stops scaling there. The honest concession: Agari fits an enterprise security team protecting its own brand's domains, especially one that wants Fortra staff administering records under a managed deployment or is already consolidating on Fortra's email security stack.
Dashboard access vs programmatic access
Agari's native API feeds and AI analytics, with no published MCP server
Fortra says DMARC Protection includes native APIs for SOC custom automations and makes DMARC threat data accessible. Its post-enforcement page says threat data can feed SIEM and SOAR platforms, including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, through open APIs. Fortra also says Reporting & Analytics aggregates DMARC data with AI and data science. Its published DMARC access section lists native APIs and preconfigured SIEM and SOAR integrations, but does not advertise an MCP server, an AI-assistant integration, or a REST or GraphQL reference. The public support-page path to Agari manuals also does not advertise a REST or GraphQL reference (checked 2026-08-27). Source (2026-08-27) Source 2 (2026-08-27) Source 3 (2026-08-27)
Agari
A relevant product screenshot was not available in the reviewed evidence.
Palisade
A relevant product screenshot was not available in the reviewed evidence.
- Native APIs for SOC automations: REST API published
- MCP server for connecting AI assistants to domain data: MCP server published
- AI and data science for DMARC reporting: Agent drafts fixes
Palisade publishes an MCP server and a REST API. The agent investigates senders, drafts SPF and DKIM fixes, and proposes each policy step. A human approves before anything ships.
Reachable from your own AI tools
Palisade's MCP server exposes 42 tools over OAuth, so the assistant your team already uses can read domains, pull the exact records to publish and work the task queue. These are the clients the connection guide walks through.
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- Any MCP client
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The agent does the heavy lifting
Sources identified, SPF and DKIM fixes drafted, each policy step proposed. You approve; nothing ships on its own.
Connect your AI with MCP
42 tools over MCP, so your assistant reads your domains and works the queue.
Connect your DNS manager directly
Approved records go into your own zone at your own provider, across 64. No credentials reach us.
“We evaluated many DMARC providers before choosing Palisade. The quality of their product, the responsiveness and friendliness of their team and their rapid progress on their product roadmap made it a no-brainer for us to move forward.”
Agari pricing explained (and how Palisade compares)
Fortra sells Agari DMARC Protection through an enterprise quote process. The pricing page is a request form, and Fortra's FAQ states price is set by user-count bands (under 100, up to 500, 1,000 and beyond), with discounts for bundling more Fortra products.
What you'd actually pay
The same five buyer sizes on every comparison, so a shape carries from one page to the next.
1 domain, up to 1,000 emails a month
2 set-up domains, up to 100K emails a month
10 set-up domains, up to 1M emails a month
20 set-up domains, up to 2.5M emails a month
Client domains under management, any volume
Palisade’s figures are derived from its published tiers. Agari figures read from their pricing page on 2026-08-28. Plans and prices may have changed since.
How Agari prices
- No prices are published anywhere on fortra.com; the pricing page is a quote-request form for a personalized quote.
- Fortra's own pricing FAQ states price is dictated by the number of users at your organization, with bands under 100 users, up to 500, and 1,000 and beyond.
- Multi-product discounts apply through Fortra's email security bundles; DMARC Protection sits in the Advanced and Elite bundles.
- Third-party procurement data (Vendr) lists typical Fortra Agari contracts at $10,000 to $50,000 per year for mid-market deployments; Fortra itself publishes no figures.
- Deployment help is offered through enterprise professional services tiers covering onboarding, training, enablement, and support, per Fortra's pricing FAQ.
- No self-serve signup or trial is advertised for DMARC Protection; entry is a demo request and quote form (checked 2026-07-18).
How Palisade prices
- Palisade publishes its self-serve IT-team pricing: flat monthly plans sized by email volume from $19/month (20% off on annual billing) with 2 to 20 set-up domains by tier (adding domains is free and unlimited), and portfolio-based per-client-domain pricing for MSPs with a minimum of 5 client domains. Agari's price is a personalized quote banded by your user count.
- Palisade sizes plans by email volume, not user count, and includes unlimited report retention on paid plans; Fortra publishes no volume or retention terms.
- API access comes with every Palisade plan. Fortra advertises native APIs but publishes no plan structure showing what a given quote includes.
- You can start Palisade yourself: a 15-day full-product trial, plus a free NFR domain for your own MSP. Agari's entry point is a demo request and a quote form.
Agari pricing read from their public pricing page on 2026-08-30.Plans and prices may have changed since.
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What each one covers, and where it stops
Published facts only, read from each vendor's own material. Neither column describes a hands-on trial, because we have not run one.
Agari, now sold by Fortra as DMARC Protection, combines DMARC reporting and analytics with 3rd-Party Sender Intelligence, EasySPF, and EasyDKIM. Enterprise security teams can use the tools to identify sending sources, inventory them, track selectors, and progress toward enforcement, either managing records themselves or using Fortra's hosted deployment.
Fortra sells DMARC Protection through enterprise quotes based on organization user-count bands. Advanced and Elite Email Security bundles include the product, and the hosted deployment assigns Fortra staff to create, host, and administer SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. The product suits enterprise security teams that want vendor service alongside the DMARC workflow.
Palisade is built around an agent that does the DMARC work rather than reporting on it. It identifies every sending source, drafts the SPF and DKIM changes each one needs, and proposes the next policy step when the evidence supports it.
The agent investigates every sender, drafts every fix, and proposes each policy step, you approve before anything ships.
- Provides executive dashboard analysis of aggregate and forensic DMARC reports
- Advertises native APIs and open API feeds for SOC automations and DMARC threat data
- Uses AI and data science for DMARC report analysis
- The agent investigates senders and drafts the fix, so the work arrives prepared rather than as a list of findings
- Hosted SPF, DKIM and DMARC on redundant managed DNS, so an approved change can be carried out rather than handed off
- Portfolio workflow for MSPs, with ConnectWise, HaloPSA and Autotask integrations and a free NFR domain
- An MCP server and a REST API, so the same data and workflow are reachable from the AI tools a team already uses
- Does not advertise an agent-led workflow for DMARC enforcement
- Does not publish DMARC report-retention terms
- Does not publish plan tiers that confirm API availability
- Does not publish per-domain MSP pricing
- Does not advertise named ConnectWise, HaloPSA, or Autotask integrations
- Every policy change waits for a human approval, by design: nothing ships on the agent's own authority
- MSP pricing is quoted per client domain rather than published as a rate card, with a minimum of 5 client domains
- Plans are sized by monthly email volume, so a low-domain, high-volume sender lands on a higher tier than domain count alone suggests
- Starts at
- Custom - contact sales
- Pricing bands
- Under 100, up to 500, and 1,000+ users
- Free tier
- Not advertised
- Trial
- Not advertised
- MSP model
- No per-domain pricing published
- Starts at
- IT plans from $19/mo by email volume; 15-day trial
- Trial
- 15 days, full product
- MSP model
- Quoted per client domain, portfolio-based; minimum of 5 client domains
What Palisade customers say
5.0 out of 5 on G2Trusted by over 10,000 domains
“Palisade made it so easy for us to get our blue verified checkmark and achieve our BIMI compliance”
Sources and further reading
Source checks run through 2026-07-18; every entry keeps its individual check date.
- Fortra DMARC Protection
Checked 2026-07-18
- Fortra Email Security pricing
Checked 2026-07-18
- Agari
Checked 2026-07-18
- Fortra
Checked 2026-07-18
- Fortra DMARC Protection API, AI, and integration claims
Checked 2026-08-27
- Fortra DMARC Protection post-enforcement API data feeds
Checked 2026-08-27
- Fortra support and Agari manual access
Checked 2026-08-27
- Fortra support portal
Checked 2026-08-27
- Fortra Agari product line
Checked 2026-08-27
Palisade vs Agari: FAQ
What is the main difference between Agari and Palisade?
Palisade is agentic DMARC software. Its agent investigates sending sources, works through SPF and DKIM alignment, and moves domains toward p=reject while your team stays in control. When evaluating Agari, compare that operating model with the workflow in its current product documentation and decide how much work you want your team to carry.
Who should choose Palisade?
Choose Palisade if you want an AI agent to carry routine DMARC work through enforcement, whether you manage one domain or thousands. It is also a natural fit for teams already using Claude, OpenAI, or other AI tools to get operational work done.
Who should choose Agari?
Choose Agari if its current integrations, procurement model, or operating workflow better match your requirements. A more operator-led platform can also fit a team that prefers to review reports and make each change itself.
Does Palisade guarantee a specific time to p=reject?
No responsible DMARC platform should promise the same enforcement timeline for every domain. Timing depends on the number of sending sources, access to DNS and third-party systems, and how quickly each legitimate stream can be aligned. Palisade's agent reduces routine investigation and configuration work while operators retain control over policy decisions.
Switching from Agari takes three steps
- 1
Batch-import your domains
Bring your client domains into Palisade in bulk, or let your ConnectWise, HaloPSA, or Autotask integration sync them automatically.
- 2
Run both platforms in parallel
DMARC reporting supports multiple recipients, so Palisade and Agari receive the same reports during the overlap window. Nothing breaks while you compare.
- 3
Cut DNS over on your schedule
Point records at Palisade's hosted infrastructure (redundant managed DNS), then retire the old setup when you're satisfied.
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