Lakera Guard - AI Security Protection

Basic Information

• Company/Brand: Lakera
• Founders: David Haber, Matthias Kraft, Severin Elvatun
• Country/Region: Switzerland
• Official Website: https://www.lakera.ai/
• GitHub: https://github.com/lakeraai
• Type: AI Security Platform
• Founded: 2021
• Funding Status: Multiple rounds of funding secured

Product Description

Lakera Guard is an AI security platform that protects LLMs and AI applications from prompt injection attacks, data leaks, and malicious inputs with a single API call. The platform acts as a security layer between users and AI models, scanning all interactions in real-time, detecting 15+ threat types (compared to OpenAI's 7 basic categories), and providing protection that automatically evolves with emerging GenAI threats.

Core Features/Characteristics

• Single API Call Protection: Protect any application and any LLM with a single API call
• 15+ Threat Type Detection: Prompt injection, data leaks, jailbreaking, etc.
• Real-Time Protection: Scan interactions between users and AI in real-time
• Automatic Evolution: Protection automatically updates with emerging threats, no manual maintenance required
• Central Dashboard: Centralized monitoring of GenAI interactions and real-time actions
• Runtime Visibility: Runtime security visibility and protection for AI agents
• Content Guardrails: Block inappropriate content and data leaks

Business Model

• Community (Free): For individual developers, researchers, and small teams, no credit card required
• Starter ($99/month): 100,000 API calls
• Professional ($499/month): 1 million API calls
• Enterprise (Custom Pricing): Large-scale deployments and advanced features

Security Compliance

• SOC 2
• EU GDPR
• NIST
• Configurable to not retain user prompts and LLM output content
• Data remains private and is discarded immediately after use

Target Users

• AI application teams in production environments
• Enterprises requiring compliant AI deployments
• Organizations handling sensitive data
• AI security operations teams
• Platforms needing real-time AI threat protection

Competitive Advantages

• Minimal integration with a single API call
• Detection of 15+ threat types (double that of OpenAI)
• Automatically evolving protection (no manual updates required)
• Enterprise-level compliance certifications (SOC2, GDPR, NIST)
• Runtime visibility and protection
• Privacy-first design with Swiss background

Comparison with Competitors

Relationship with OpenClaw Ecosystem

Lakera Guard provides the most convenient AI security solution for the OpenClaw ecosystem. Its single API call integration allows OpenClaw to add comprehensive security protection without modifying the core architecture. The automatically evolving threat protection ensures that OpenClaw does not need to continuously manually update security rules. However, as a commercial SaaS solution, its cost and data privacy (though configurable) need to be weighed against open-source solutions like LLM Guard.