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OpenAI GuardrailsvsLakera Guard
OpenAI's first-party guardrails library for Responses/Assistants versus Real-time AI security guardrails — now part of Cisco AI Defense
Compare interactively in Explore →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
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
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OpenAI Guardrails
Lakera Guard
Category
AI Guardrails
AI Guardrails
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Open Source
Commercial
Free Tier
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Pricing Plans
OSS: Free
Pro: From $99/moEnterprise: Custom
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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.
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.
Shared Connections1 tools both integrate with
Only OpenAI Guardrails (2)
Lakera GuardOpenAI API
Only Lakera Guard (3)
NeMo GuardrailsLLM GuardOpenAI Guardrails
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