Cisco AI Defense vs HiddenLayer vs Lakera vs Robust Intelligence
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cisco AI Defense
Cisco's integrated AI security suite
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HiddenLayer
MLSec platform — protects deployed ML models
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Lakera
Prompt-injection and AI security for LLM apps
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Robust Intelligence
AI security platform — acquired by Cisco
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Enterprise | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Cisco AI Defense is a serious enterprise-grade play for securing AI and agentic workloads end to end: model and MCP discovery, algorithmic red teaming, AI supply-chain scanning, and runtime guardrails against prompt inje... |
HiddenLayer is a specialist AI security platform covering model supply-chain scanning, runtime detection and response (MLDR) against attacks like prompt injection and model theft, plus adversarial red teaming. As one of... |
Lakera is a specialist AI-security company focused on protecting LLM applications from prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage and other GenAI-specific threats, offering real-time guardrails (Lakera Guard) and automat... |
Robust Intelligence is an AI security platform offering automated red-teaming, an AI firewall and runtime guardrails to protect LLM and ML applications from prompt injection, data leakage, jailbreaks and unsafe outputs.... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.