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Kosli records delivery evidence and environment drift for regulated enterprises, by contract. Aspian Cloud adds what Kosli now leaves to others: an approval workflow bound to the exact change, one rulebook for contractors and agents, and self-serve prices.
Checked on 8 November 2026 against Kosli sources linked in each row. Products change; follow each source before relying on a row.
- What it is
Kosli
A tool-agnostic compliance recorder that collects evidence from existing CI, scanners and runtimes into immutable records evaluated against policy controls. Its docs say it records delivery events rather than controlling the delivery process.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
Change control for software: it approves, records and proves every production change, made by people, contractors or AI agents, on any deploy tool.
/product- Evidence model
Kosli
Flows model repeatable processes; each run is a Trail keyed by commit SHA or PR; Attestations record that a check (snyk, junit, sonar, pull request, generic or custom) ran on an artifact or trail, with its result.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
One change record per change: work item, risk, evidence, approvals, deploy and the live version that proves it is working.
/product/audits- Approval workflow
Kosli
The dedicated approval commands (kosli report approval) were deprecated in v2.20.0 and removed in v2.35.0 (July 2026), and the /api/v2/approvals endpoints were removed. Kosli now recommends recording approval evidence as attestations, such as pull request attestations.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
Built in. Policy approves routine changes; risky ones go to named approvers with the full card, by Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or email. The requester can never approve.
/product/approvals- Approval bound to the change
Kosli
Approval evidence is attached to a trail or artifact (identified by SHA256 fingerprint) as an attestation, and OPA policies can check PR approvers. A passkey or signed human approval step was not found in public docs.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
A passkey signature over the change’s hash. If the change moves after approval, the approval no longer counts.
/product/approvals- What is actually running
Kosli
Environment snapshots record the running artifacts. A new immutable snapshot is created whenever a report differs from the last one, and each environment is marked compliant or non-compliant against its attached policies.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
Signed snapshots by artifact fingerprint, a drift item within minutes for anything unapproved, and Unknown never shown as compliant.
/product/runtime-proof- Deploy tools covered
Kosli
Its environment types are Kubernetes, Docker, server paths, AWS S3, Lambda and ECS, Azure Web Apps and Function Apps, and Google Cloud Run. Reports come from the CLI on a schedule or event, or from Cloud Capture.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, AWS and Kubernetes, each at Observe, Gate or Hold, stated per integration. Hold covers deploys made outside any pipeline.
/integrations- AI agents
Kosli
Kosli now positions itself as governance infrastructure for the AI SDLC. It says it treats agents and humans alike and records every action as evidence on a change.
kosli.comAspian Cloud
One pack writes Claude Code, Copilot and Cursor configuration; agents work for a named person through an MCP gateway, and can propose but never approve.
/product/ai-agents- Contractors and suppliers
Kosli
Not found in public docs as a separate contractor policy pack. Kosli says it applies the same evidence model to agents and humans.
kosli.comAspian Cloud
Engagements with scoped, expiring identities that never approve, and a signed handover pack that proves access ended.
/product/contractors- Evidence anyone can verify
Kosli
Audit packages are downloadable tar files of metadata and evidence for a trail, artifact or attestation. The homepage cites cryptographic build provenance and an append-only evidence store. Docs reviewed did not describe offline signature verification of packages.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
Hash-chained, signed hourly, with RFC 3161 timestamps; a published method lets an auditor verify offline without Aspian access.
/product/audits- Pricing
Kosli
No list prices. It is annual contracts only, priced by data recorded and retention, with a 'Get pricing' contact flow. No free or self-serve tier is mentioned; the homepage CTAs are demo and contact.
kosli.comAspian Cloud
Published. Scan and Observe free; Team $24 / £18 / €21 / ₦15,000 a month; Business from $375 / £290 / €340 / ₦150,000.
/editions- Setup
Kosli
Teams instrument pipelines with the Kosli CLI (attest commands) and schedule environment snapshot reporting via cron, CI jobs or Cloud Capture.
docs.kosli.comAspian Cloud
Install the GitHub App; the scan arrives in minutes; policies start in Evaluate, so nothing is blocked on day one.
/docs/quickstart
When Kosli fits better
- Large regulated enterprises (for example banks) that want a sales-led, contracted evidence platform with a long track record in DevOps compliance may prefer Kosli.
- Teams whose main need is aggregating many typed scanner and test attestations (Snyk, SonarQube, JUnit) into one queryable record, across many environment types including Azure and Cloud Run.
- Organisations that already write OPA/Rego policies and want to evaluate trails with them directly.
Running both
- 1Teams already sending attestations to Kosli can keep them; Aspian Cloud reads the same CI evidence.
- 2Start with the free scan to see what your current process misses.
- 3Gate production in Aspian Cloud, and keep Kosli as an evidence store if your auditors already rely on it.
See what shipped without approval in your last 90 days.
Install the GitHub App and the scan arrives in minutes: every repo scored, every unreviewed merge and unapproved deploy named. Nothing is blocked until you choose.
Ship like a startup. Prove it like a bank.