Cisco AI Defense vs Lakera vs Pillar Security vs Prompt Security
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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Lakera
Prompt-injection and AI security for LLM apps
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Pillar Security
End-to-end security for AI applications
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Prompt Security
Inline LLM application security gateway — now sold as part of Sentinel...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Custom | Custom |
| Free tier | Not confirmed — Cisco's AI Defense pages would not load for us | Community plan: $0/month, listed as "10k / month" and "8k tokens"; SaaS-hosted, community support | — | — |
| Paid from | Not confirmed — no public price we could load from cisco.com | Not published — Enterprise by quote (SaaS or self-hosted) | Quoted — the vendor has no pricing page | Quoted through SentinelOne |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2021 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | Check Point Software (acquired October 2025) | — | SentinelOne (acquired September 2025) |
| 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... |
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... |
Pillar Security is an Israeli AI-security startup offering end-to-end protection for LLM applications and agents: AI asset discovery and fingerprinting, tailored adversarial red-teaming, and adaptive runtime guardrails t... |
Prompt Security is a pioneer in securing generative and agentic AI at runtime, giving organisations visibility into how employees and apps use AI, what data is being shared, and enforcement against prompt injection, sens... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.