F5 AI Guardrails (formerly CalypsoAI) vs Lakera
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| CA F5 AI Guardrails (formerly CalypsoAI) CalypsoAI's runtime AI guardrails, sold by F5 since the September 2025... Visit |
Lakera
Prompt-injection guardrails and AI red teaming, now part of Check Poin...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Custom | Freemium |
| 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 |
| Paid from | Quote only, sold by F5 as a private offer | Not published — Enterprise quoted on request (SaaS or self-hosted) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
| Maker | F5, Inc. | Check Point Software Technologies |
| Verdict | F5 AI Guardrails is CalypsoAI's runtime layer under F5 ownership: policy enforcement on prompts, responses and agent tool calls, with prebuilt data-protection and EU AI Act controls, natural-language custom policies and... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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