Llama Guard vs Lakera vs Protect AI vs Mindgard
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Llama Guard
Meta's open classifier for filtering unsafe LLM prompts/replies
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Lakera
Prompt-injection and AI security for LLM apps
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Protect AI
Security platform for the ML supply chain
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Mindgard
AI red-teaming platform
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
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| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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| Founded | 2023 | 2021 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Llama Guard has gone through four generations since its 2023 debut: a Llama 2-based 7B classifier, then a Llama 3 refresh, then a Llama 3.1/3.2-based Guard 3 suite (8B, 1B and an 11B vision model tuned to the MLCommons h... |
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... |
Protect AI was a leading AI/ML security company offering model scanning, AI security posture management, AI red-teaming and runtime protection across the ML lifecycle, and a strong contributor to the open-source ML suppl... |
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... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.