Lakera Guard
AI security platform that detects and blocks threats to large language model applications in real-time
- Also known as
- lakera-guard
Available worldwide
What is 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.
Lakera Guard pricing
We don't have Lakera Guard's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Lakera Guard does
The capabilities that matter for ai guardrails, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Managed cloud inline proxy
- Prompt injection and jailbreak blocking
- ✓
- Inbound pii and credit card masking redaction
- ✓
- Outbound toxicity and competitor mention blocking
- -
- Hallucination and topical off brand drift detection
- -
- Sub 50ms latency guarantees for proxy routing
- ✓
- Custom regex and deterministic denylist rulesets
- ✓
- Streaming token interception and chunked eval
- -
- Rag retrieval chunk poisoning defense
- -
- Zero data retention and prompt privacy guarantees
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Grafana
- Splunk
Lakera Guard alternatives
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Compare Lakera Guard
Side by side against other ai guardrails, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Lakera Guard, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.07 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.04 | 0.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Architecture model: managed_cloud_inline_proxy · Prompt injection and jailbreak blocking: Yes · Inbound pii and credit card masking redaction: Yes · Sub 50ms latency guarantees for proxy routing: Yes · Custom regex and deterministic denylist rulesets: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-21 · 75% |