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Comparison

Arthur Shield vs Enkrypt AI

On the evidence we track, Enkrypt AI leads this comparison with a composite score of 71/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Arthur Shield63
★Enkrypt AI71
Score
vioscaleAI score
Arthur Shield63 / 100medium · 54%
Enkrypt AI71 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Model
Arthur Shieldfree
Enkrypt AIfreemium
Price level
Arthur Shieldfree
Enkrypt AIhigh
Starting price
Arthur Shield$60
Enkrypt AI$149
Transparent
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Integrations
Count
Arthur Shield7
Enkrypt AI7
Security
Gdpr
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Hipaa
Arthur Shield–
Enkrypt AI✓
Iso27001
Arthur Shield–
Enkrypt AI✓
Pci
Arthur Shield–
Enkrypt AI✓
Soc2
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Trust center
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Arthur Shield7 items
Enkrypt AI6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai guardrails. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Architecture model
Arthur ShieldManaged cloud inline proxy
Enkrypt AIManaged cloud inline proxy
Prompt injection and jailbreak blocking
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Inbound pii and credit card masking redaction
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Outbound toxicity and competitor mention blocking
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Hallucination and topical off brand drift detection
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Sub 50ms latency guarantees for proxy routing
Arthur Shield✗
Enkrypt AI✓
Custom regex and deterministic denylist rulesets
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Streaming token interception and chunked eval
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI-
Rag retrieval chunk poisoning defense
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI-
Zero data retention and prompt privacy guarantees
Arthur Shield✗
Enkrypt AI✓
SOC2 type ii
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
ISO 27001
Arthur Shield✗
Enkrypt AI✓
Pricing model
Arthur ShieldFlat enterprise tier
Enkrypt AIFlat enterprise tier

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Arthur Shield

An open-source tool designed to enforce safety guardrails in AI/ML workloads, detect quality issues like data leakage and hallucinations in real-time, manage prompts across applications, and monitor model performance and RAG pipelines.

Independently observed

Enkrypt AI

Leader

Enkrypt AI is a runtime governance platform for large language models and AI agents, providing real-time policy enforcement against prompt injection, data leakage, and compliance violations. It integrates with API gateways and infrastructure to analyze prompts and responses with sub-20 millisecond latency.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Arthur Shield

HybridFree tier

Free tier available; enterprise pricing by quote

  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Enkrypt AI

Leader
from $149/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available (Explore). From $149/month (Launch). Scale at $1,499/month. Annual plans save ~10%.

  • ExploreFree
    • Security guardrails
    • Risk dashboards
    • Full API access
    • Basic red team testing
    • Community support
    • +3 more
  • Launch$149/month. Save $180/year with annual billing ($134/month)
    • Everything in Explore, plus
    • Compliance guardrails (OWASP, NIST, EU AI Act)
    • Custom policy guardrails
    • MCP Server Scanning
    • PII detection & masking
    • +5 more
  • Scale$1,499/month. Save $1,800/year with annual billing ($1,349/month)
    • Everything in Launch, plus
    • Multi-modal red teaming
    • Multi-modal guardrails
    • MCP Gateway + Registry
    • Compliance audit reports (PDF)
    • +5 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Scale, plus
    • RBAC (role-based access control)
    • VPC / On-premises deployment
    • Unlimited usage for VPC
    • SIEM & identity integrations
    • +3 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
Self-hosted
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✓
On-premise
Arthur Shield✓
Enkrypt AI✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Arthur Shield

7 total
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Snowflake
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI
  • AWS
  • MCP
  • Claude Code
Independently observed

Enkrypt AI

Leader
27 total
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Datadog
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Webhooks
  • NetScaler
  • API gateways
  • SIEM platforms
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LiteLLM
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • MS Copilot
  • OAuth
  • JWT
  • SAML
  • LDAP
  • GitHub
  • Google Drive
  • Notion
  • +3 more
Independently observed
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