# AgentGate vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) (slim)

> Lakera Guard scores 59.6 (C) to AgentGate's 48.5 (D) for policy enforcement. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- AgentGate: D 48.5, rank #883 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentgate.min.md
- Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails): C 59.6, rank #578 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lakera-guard.min.md
- AgentGate, good 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 No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails), good 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 A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | AgentGate | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 44 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 47 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 21 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AgentGate | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mohit Singh (mohitdebian) | Check Point |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-06-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |