Lakera vs Promptfoo

Lakera is a Zurich-based AI security company founded in 2021 by former Google, Meta, and aerospace engineers. The company provides the Lakera Guard platform, which offers real-time prompt injection prevention, data leakage protection, jailbreak detection, and AI agent security for enterprise generative AI deployments. It operates across workforce AI security, AI agent security, and AI red teaming, with sub-50ms runtime latency and a SaaS-first, API-first architecture. Lakera is the creator of Gandalf, a widely used AI security educational game with over 1 million players and 80M+ prompts collected, which provides a continuously updated threat intelligence database. The company is cited in the OWASP LLM and GenAI Security Landscape Guide 2025, recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Innovation Guide for Generative AI (TRiSM), and had Lakera's CEO join the World Economic Forum 2024 alongside Yann LeCun and others. Named customers include Dropbox and a top-3 US bank.

Promptfoo is an open-source CLI and library for evaluating LLM prompts, models, RAGs, and agents through automated benchmarks and matrix comparisons, alongside red-teaming for security vulnerabilities like prompt injections, jailbreaks, PII leaks, and insecure tool use. It differentiates via developer-first local execution, CI/CD integration, and modular plugins covering 50+ attack types with community-driven threat intelligence. Targeted at developers and security teams in enterprises (127 Fortune 500 users), it supports self-hosting to avoid vendor lock-in. Enterprise adds collaboration, monitoring, SSO, and compliance dashboards. Acquired by OpenAI in March 2026 for integration into Frontier platform, remains open-source with SaaS/on-prem options.Promptfoo homepagePromptfoo docsPromptfoo pricing