F5 AI Guardrails (formerly CalypsoAI) vs Lakera vs Mindgard vs Pillar Security
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| CA F5 AI Guardrails (formerly CalypsoAI) GenAI security platform for enterprise Visit |
Lakera
Prompt-injection and AI security for LLM apps
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Mindgard
AI red-teaming platform
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Pillar Security
End-to-end security for AI applications
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | F5, Inc. | — | — | — |
| Verdict | CalypsoAI is an enterprise AI-security platform offering runtime guardrails (prompt-injection and jailbreak defence), automated agentic red-teaming against models and agents, and observability. The red-teaming-at-scale c... |
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... |
Mindgard is a specialist automated AI red-teaming and DAST-for-AI platform, spun out of Lancaster University, that tests LLMs, agents, and multimodal models against thousands of attack scenarios (prompt injection, jailbr... |
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... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.