Lakera Guard
Lakera secures GenAI apps and agents in real time—ultra-low latency, precision, and protection powered by the world’s largest AI red team.
About
Lakera is an AI-native security platform that protects Generative AI applications, agents, and MCPs with real-time runtime protection, AI red teaming, and centralized policy control. Backed by the world’s largest AI red team (Gandalf) and trusted by Fortune 500 companies like Dropbox, Lakera delivers sub-50 ms latency, a 0.01% false positive rate, multimodal/model-agnostic coverage across 100+ languages, and effortless scale to 1M+ transactions per app/day. Founded in 2021 (Zurich and San Francisco), recognized by Gartner and OWASP, and acquired by Check Point in 2025, Lakera reduces AI risks by 3–4 orders of magnitude and adapts to evolving threats without code changes.
Details
Lakera is an AI-native security platform designed to protect LLM-powered applications from various threats, including prompt injection attacks, hallucinations, data leakage, toxic language, and compliance violations. It offers runtime security, red teaming services, AI security training, and PII detection to ensure the safety and reliability of GenAI initiatives.
How to Use
Lakera offers several products and services. Lakera Guard can be integrated with a few lines of code to protect AI applications. Lakera Red provides risk-based GenAI red teaming. Lakera Gandalf offers AI security training. Lakera PII Detection prevents data leakage in ChatGPT.
Key Features
- Prompt injection attack protection
- Hallucination mitigation
- Data leakage prevention
- Toxic language detection
- Real-time visibility of GenAI
Use Cases
- and risks
- Threat detection and response
- Customizable guardrails for GenAI deployments
- Multilingual threat detection (100+ languages)
- Low-latency performance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Ultra-low latency (sub-50 ms) for real-time protection without degrading user experience
- Exceptionally low false positive rate (0.01% in production) with high detection accuracy
- Multimodal and model-agnostic, supporting text and audio chatbots across any LLM provider
- Scales effortlessly to 1M+ secured transactions per app/day
- Reduces AI risks by 3–4 orders of magnitude with context-aware detection
- No-code policy customization and easy integration with a single line of code
- Continuously adapts to emerging GenAI threats without manual updates
- Backed by the world's largest AI red team (Gandalf) with real-time threat intelligence
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Lakera?
Lakera is an AI-native security platform that protects GenAI applications, agents, and MCPs with runtime threat detection, prompt attack prevention, data loss safeguards, and risk-based AI red teaming.
How does Lakera stop prompt injections and jailbreaks?
Lakera screens inputs and outputs in real time to detect and block prompt injections, jailbreaks, and manipulations, enforcing centralized policies with sub-50 ms latency and a 0.01% production false positive rate.
What is Lakera Guard?
Lakera Guard is Lakera’s runtime protection layer that provides real-time detection and prevention for prompt attacks, data leakage, and content risks, scaling to 1M+ transactions per app/day across 100+ languages.
What is Gandalf and how does it power Lakera?
Gandalf is Lakera’s AI educational game and the world’s largest AI red team, learning from 1M+ hackers and tens of millions of attack attempts across 100+ languages to continuously improve Lakera’s threat intelligence.
Does Lakera support different models and modalities?
Yes. Lakera is multimodal and model-agnostic, securing chatbots, audio bots, and agentic apps across any underlying LLM or provider in 100+ languages.
How is Lakera deployed and integrated?
Lakera is API-first and cloud-native, available as SaaS or self-hosted containers, with easy single-line insertion, central policy control, and integrations for tools like Grafana and Splunk.
What performance and scale can I expect?
Lakera delivers ultra-low latency (sub-50 ms), scales from zero to hundreds of prompts per second, and supports 1M+ secured transactions per app/day with exceptionally low false positives (~0.01%).
Who uses Lakera?
Lakera is trusted by Fortune 500s and high-growth teams, including Dropbox, global banks, and edtech firms securing 20+ GenAI apps such as tutoring assistants for children.
What industry recognition has Lakera received?
Lakera is cited as a GenAI TRiSM Vendor in Gartner’s 2024 Innovation Guide, referenced in the OWASP LLM/GenAI Top 10 guidance, and named a top Swiss startup in 2024.
Who founded Lakera and what is its current status?
Founded in 2021 in Zurich (with a San Francisco office) by alumni of Google, Meta, and aerospace, Lakera raised a $20M Series A (total $30M) and was acquired by Check Point in 2025.