authentic8 Review, Pricing & Features

See Authentic8 Silo's pricing ($1,450-$3,450/user/year), FedRAMP/SOC 2/HIPAA certifications, and browser isolation features for OSINT and threat intel teams.

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Annual per-user licensing: Local $1,450/user/yr, Multi-Region $2,450/user/yr, Global $3,450/user/yr, with a 30-day free trial., from $1,450
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Authentic8 Silo is a cloud-native digital investigation platform built for analysts who need to research the open, deep, and dark web without exposing their identity, IP address, organization, or intent to the sites and adversaries they investigate. Rather than running on the analyst's own machine, all browsing executes remotely in Authentic8's isolated cloud environment, protecting the endpoint from malware and preventing sites from fingerprinting the investigator (source: authentic8.com/products/silo-workspace/). A managed attribution network of 700+ in-region nodes across every continent — spanning residential, mobile, data-center, and Tor/dark-web routing — lets investigators appear to browse from a specific geography, with rapid-response nodes for time-sensitive cases (source: authentic8.com/products/silo-workspace/). On top of this isolated browser, analysts can compose one-click workspaces that combine the Silo for Research browser with third-party investigation apps such as Telegram, Signal, Maltego, LibreOffice, and Obsidian, plus Authentic8's own tools: Silo Nexus (source-grounded AI assistant), Silo Collector (scheduled source monitoring), Silo Gofer (multi-site simultaneous search), Silo Case Manager (automated evidence capture), and Silo Translate (multi-format content translation) (source: authentic8.com/products/silo-workspace/). Every investigative session generates encrypted, immutable logs and a tamper-resistant chain of custody, and the company reports FedRAMP authorization plus SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DFARS, CMMC, and CSA STAR compliance, along with 4.8M investigative sessions delivered annually and 99.99% historical uptime (source: authentic8.com/certifications/). Authentic8 is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with additional offices in Washington D.C., Herndon, VA, and San Francisco, and states it serves 750+ customers across government and commercial intelligence teams (source: authentic8.com/about/).

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Holds a broad enterprise/government compliance portfolio — FedRAMP authorization, SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DFARS, and CMMC — which is unusually deep for an investigation-tooling vendor (source: authentic8.com/certifications/)
  • A managed attribution network of 700+ in-region nodes (including Tor/dark-web routing) lets investigators browse as if physically located in a target region, without exposing their real IP (source: authentic8.com/products/silo-workspace/)
  • Bundles several investigation workflows — AI-assisted research (Silo Nexus), scheduled monitoring (Silo Collector), multi-site search (Silo Gofer), case management, and translation — into one workspace instead of separate point tools (source: authentic8.com/products/silo-workspace/)
  • Every paid tier includes a 30-day free trial with full Workspace features, so teams can evaluate the platform before committing to an annual license (source: authentic8.com/pricing/)

Cons

  • Pricing starts at $1,450 per user/year for single-region access and rises to $3,450 per user/year for global coverage — a meaningful annual cost for small teams or individual researchers (source: authentic8.com/pricing/)
  • Silo Nexus AI is capped at 10 prompts per day on standard tiers; unlimited AI use requires an enterprise agreement (source: authentic8.com/pricing/)
  • Licensing is structured as annual, per-seat contracts rather than self-serve monthly billing, which may not fit short-term or one-off investigative engagements (source: authentic8.com/pricing/)
  • Public pages do not disclose founding year, employee headcount, or named leadership, so prospects must contact the company directly for that information (source: authentic8.com/about/)

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