Comparison

Enkrypt AI vs Lakera Guard

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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★Enkrypt AI71
Lakera Guard48
Score
vioscaleAI score
Enkrypt AI71 / 100medium · 53%
Lakera Guard48 / 100medium · 56%
Pricing
Free tier
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓
Model
Enkrypt AIfreemium
Lakera Guardfree
Price level
Enkrypt AIhigh
Lakera Guardfree
Starting price
Enkrypt AI$149
Lakera Guard–
Transparent
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✗
Integrations
Count
Enkrypt AI7
Lakera Guard2
Security
Gdpr
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓
Hipaa
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard–
Iso27001
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard–
Pci
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard–
Soc2
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Enkrypt AI6 items
Lakera Guard5 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Lakera Guard

A cloud-native security platform designed for AI applications that intercepts both user inputs and model outputs to detect and prevent prompt injections, data leakage, jailbreaks, and compliance violations before they reach the LLM.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Lakera Guard

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓
Self-hosted
Enkrypt AI✓
Lakera Guard✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Splunk

Enkrypt AI

Leader
27 total - 26 not shared
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • 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
  • PostgreSQL
  • +2 more
Independently observed

Lakera Guard

2 total - 1 not shared
  • Grafana
Independently observed
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