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Lakera GuardvsOpenAI Guardrails

Real-time AI security guardrails — now part of Cisco AI Defense versus OpenAI's first-party guardrails library for Responses/Assistants

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Choose Lakera Guard when…

  • •You need real-time prompt-injection defense in production
  • •You want a managed, enterprise-grade guardrails layer
  • •You are already on Cisco's security stack

Choose OpenAI Guardrails when…

  • •You are building on the OpenAI Responses or Assistants API
  • •You want first-party guardrails with OpenAI moderation built in
  • •You want to keep policy code in the same SDK as your model calls

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Lakera Guard

Real-time prompt-injection and data-leak protection for LLM and agent applications. Acquired by Cisco in May 2025 and integrated into Cisco AI Defense. The dominant commercial guardrails platform in 2026.

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OpenAI Guardrails

OpenAI's official Python/TS library for adding guardrails to Responses API and Assistants API applications. Ships moderation, jailbreak detection, hallucination checks, and PII filters as composable guardrails.

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Shared Connections1 tools both integrate with

Guardrails AI

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NeMo GuardrailsLLM GuardOpenAI Guardrails

Only OpenAI Guardrails (2)

Lakera GuardOpenAI API

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