HiddenLayer vs Lakera vs Pillar Security vs Protect AI (now Prisma AIRS)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
HiddenLayer
AI security platform for models, generative AI and agents
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Lakera
Prompt-injection guardrails and AI red teaming, now part of Check Poin...
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Pillar Security
Discover, red-team and guard every AI agent in one platform
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Protect AI (now Prisma AIRS)
ML model security start-up, now inside Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Custom | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | Community plan: $0/month, 10,000 requests a month, prompts up to 8,000 tokens, SaaS hosting with EU data residency, community support | No free plan; a free AI risk assessment is offered to qualified organisations | — |
| Paid from | Custom quote via demo or AWS private offer (AWS list: $5,000,000 per unit per 12 months) | Not published — Enterprise quoted on request (SaaS or self-hosted) | Quote only (pillar.security has no pricing page) | Not published — Prisma AIRS is quoted after a demo, token-based licensing since Feb 2026 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
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| Founded | 2022 | 2021 | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Check Point Software Technologies | — | Palo Alto Networks |
| Verdict | HiddenLayer is a dedicated AI security platform that covers four jobs: finding the models and agents running in an organisation, scanning model files before deployment, red-teaming them, and blocking attacks such as prom... |
Lakera remains one of the best-known runtime guardrails for LLM applications: one API call screens prompts and outputs for prompt injection, jailbreaks and data leakage across more than 100 languages, and a free Communit... |
Pillar Security suits an enterprise building or buying AI agents in earnest that wants discovery, red-teaming and runtime protection in one product. RedGraph attacks complete agent workflows, findings feed the guardrails... |
Protect AI's ideas survive in better-funded form: Prisma AIRS scans 35+ model file types for embedded code and backdoors, red-teams AI apps and agents, and guards them at runtime, now alongside agent security and an AI G... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.