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Sensitive Data Security, Purpose-Built for Payments

PCI compliance, PII protection, AI-ready data infrastructure, agentic commerce support, and the developer flexibility to route your data anywhere. Basis Theory does it all. With transparent pricing, no lock-in, and a payments-first foundation that goes deeper than the competition.

 

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Why teams choose Basis Theory

The market for sensitive data infrastructure is evolving fast. Platforms like Skyflow are expanding from payments into broader PII vaulting, AI data security, and agentic AI workflows.

The difference is depth and ownership. Basis Theory was built payments-first, which means richer compliance coverage, more granular controls, and the flexibility to route tokenized data to any processor or downstream system — without re-entering scope, without lock-in, and without a custom pricing conversation just to get started.

 

Basis Theory allows organizations to:

  • Unlock new insights, partnerships, and products
  • Secure your data without additional overhead
  • Manage your sensitive data at scale

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How is Basis Theory Different?

Comparing Basis Theory and Skyflow

  Basis Theory Skyflow
Compliance
  • PCI Level 1 Compliant
  • SOC 2 Type II Certified
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • NACHA Compliant
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI Compliant
  • SOC 2
  • HIPAA Compliant
PII Protection Tokenize, mask, and govern any PII across your tech stack with granular access policies Core PII vaulting with governance policies and access controls
Payments & processor routing Route tokenized card data to any PSP, gateway, or third-party endpoint. No re-entry into PCI scope, no single point of failure PCI compliance and payment vaulting; pre-built integrations with select processors
Customer Support

Customers may receive support through the Partially Redacted community.

Integrations

Integrate with PSPs, payment gateways, and third-party APIs 

Integrate with PSPs, payment gateways, and third-party APIs. Skyflow also offers pre-built integrations with third parties.

Pricing

Pricing that grows with your organization:

  • Free Trial: Sign up today and build your POC on your own terms
  • Starter: Unlimited usage on a price-per-token model
  • Professional: full support and custom pricing

Custom pricing - must contact sales to get started

Documentation

Developer-focused documentation with helpful getting started guides

Comprehensive API documentation

Migrating

Transparent migration guides

No vendor lock-in; offers helpful guides to migrate off Basis Theory should the need arise

Guides to migrate to Skyflow but not to migrate off the platform

 


"Basis Theory made us PCI compliant in a day, rather than months. The team has been a delight to work with and they beat other tokenization platforms on cost."
ethan-lacey
Ethan Lacey
Founder at UNION

What you get with Basis Theory

Securing your data

 

Collect and protect data in Minutes

Capture sensitive data without it touching your systems using forms embedded right into your application.
 
 

Compliant hosted environments

Eliminate scope with your own configurable Tenant, a dedicated environment within our PCI Level 1 and SOC 2 compliant environment.
 
 

Managed encryption services

Secure your data automatically with the latest encryption methods and built-in Key Management Services.
 

Using your data

Custom masking

Reveal only what's needed with automatically-generated obfuscated text.
 
 

Fingerprinting

Recognize your data with a single value to uniquely identify the contents of a token.
 
 

Searchable

Recognize your data with a single value to uniquely identify the contents of a token.
 
 

Sharing your data

Send and receive cardholder data with any payment service provider or third-party processor.

Managing your data

Integrated controls

Govern, support, and optimize your implementation through our API, or supported Infrastructure as Code tools — like Terraform.
 

Ops support

Quickly debug, review logs, manage users, and much more by connecting Basis Theory to your existing admin tools. 
 
 

Enforce access policies

Meet policy requirements around access controls and permissions with our RBAC-friendly classifications and impact levels.

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