Comparison

Lakera Guard vs Llama Guard

No clear leader: Lakera Guard (47.6) and Llama Guard (43.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Lakera Guard48
Llama Guard44
Score
vioscaleAI score
Lakera Guard48 / 100medium · 56%
Llama Guard44 / 100low · 25%
Pricing
Free tier
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard✓
Model
Lakera Guardfree
Llama Guardopen_source
Price level
Lakera Guardfree
Llama Guardfree
Transparent
Lakera Guard✗
Llama Guard✓
Integrations
Count
Lakera Guard2
Llama Guard–
Security
Gdpr
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard–
Scorecard
Lakera Guard–
Llama Guard5.9
Soc2
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard–
Trust center
Lakera Guard–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Lakera Guard–
Llama Guard0
Github stars
Lakera Guard–
Llama Guard4,431
Activity
Commits last 30d
Lakera Guard–
Llama Guard3
Language
Primary
Lakera Guard–
Llama GuardPython
Market
Availability
Llama Guard–
Content
Faq
Lakera Guard5 items
Llama Guard4 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Llama Guard

Open-source moderation models that detect and help prevent harmful content in AI language model inputs and outputs, with capabilities including prompt injection and jailbreak attack detection.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Lakera Guard

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Llama Guard

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source under MIT license

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard✗
CLI
Lakera Guard✗
Llama Guard✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard✗
Self-hosted
Lakera Guard✓
Llama Guard✓

Integrations

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

Lakera Guard

2 total
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
Independently observed

Llama Guard

Not documented yet.

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Lakera Guard or Llama Guard: which one depends on you

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Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.