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Head to head · Policy enforcement · October 2026 research run

AgentGate vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)

Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against AgentGate's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AgentGate leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do policy enforcement.

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AgentGateMohit Singh (mohitdebian) · HTTP API D48.5/100#883 of 1094 Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)Check Point · HTTP API C59.6/100#578 of 1094

Which one, for what

AgentGate D

Best for A team that wants a self-hosted check between an agent and its shell, database or webhook tools, with a human approval queue.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 15
  • Maintenance & community, 28 against 21

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Agent endpoints need no key unless AG_AGENT_KEY is set, the proxy binds 0.0.0.0:8080, and the dashboard key defaults to dev-key-123

Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) C

Best for An agent that wants one hosted call to screen user input, tool calls and tool results for injection in the OpenAI message format.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 44
  • Schema & documentation, 86 against 47
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 53
  • Security & auth, 65 against 49

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Prompts and outputs are stored for the dashboard by default

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAgentGateLakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)Edge
Reliability16%204465Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +21
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24786Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +39
Agent ergonomics13%16.25377Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +24
Security & auth14%17.54965Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +16
Payments & pricing10%12.56015AgentGate +45
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82821AgentGate +7
Transparency & trust7%8.85657Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 48.5/100C 59.6/100

Facts side by side

FactAgentGateLakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMohit Singh (mohitdebian)Check Point
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITnone
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-06-08
Terms last updatedno document linkedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-06-01
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity0 starsnone
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

AgentGate

An agent or its host can send each tool call to one REST endpoint, or wrap an MCP server, and get allow, deny or ask from a local classifier and a YAML policy, with an audit log and approval queue. The project is three days old, auth is off by default, and no detection accuracy is published.

Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)

OpenAI message format in, including tools, tool calls and tool results. Prompts and outputs are stored for the dashboard by default.

Before you call either

AgentGate

  1. Create a session with the user's real goal first. The goal-alignment head scores every later call against it
  2. Pass earlier tool results in history_override with untrusted: true for web or email content, or the injection head sees only the action
  3. On ask, stop and tell the user the decision_id. Polling /v1/decisions/:id needs the dashboard key
  4. Treat allow_with_checkpoint as allow and keep the checkpoint_id for an undo
  5. Expect HTTP 404 with not_found for an unknown session and 401 when the owner has set an agent key

Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)

  1. Start the project in Detect mode and calibrate before Enforce. In Detect mode flagged is always false
  2. Send the whole conversation, but expect only the last user, assistant or tool turn to be scored
  3. Ask for breakdown=true and treat the confidence levels as a dial, not a boolean
  4. Turn off prompt logging in General Settings if the dashboard shouldn't hold user content
  5. Pin eu.api.lakera.ai or us.api.lakera.ai rather than api.lakera.ai when residency matters

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AgentGate or Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)?

Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against AgentGate's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AgentGate leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

Do AgentGate and Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) need an API key?

AgentGate needs no key. Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) needs an API key.

Can an agent call AgentGate and Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) without installing anything?

AgentGate runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard.

Are AgentGate and Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) open source?

AgentGate is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails).

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