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          "Only the last interaction is screened, so a slow multi-turn attack needs your own history handling",
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          "Changelog quiet since 8 June 2026, and no security.txt or disclosure policy found"
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          "Start the project in Detect mode and calibrate before Enforce. In Detect mode flagged is always false",
          "Send the whole conversation, but expect only the last user, assistant or tool turn to be scored",
          "Ask for breakdown=true and treat the confidence levels as a dial, not a boolean",
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          "status.checkpoint.com lists Check Point AI Security (Lakera Guard) with platform, EU API and APAC/US API components.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lakera-guard.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lakera-guard.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Guardrails AI for payments \u0026 pricing (+45), maintenance \u0026 community (+23).\n\nPick Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) for reliability (+7), schema \u0026 documentation (+27), agent ergonomics (+14), security \u0026 auth (+21).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Guardrails AI | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 65 | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 86 | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 77 | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 65 | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 15 | Guardrails AI +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 44 | 21 | Guardrails AI +23 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 59 | Guardrails AI +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.8 · D** | **59.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Guardrails AI | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Guardrails AI (Harvey) | Check Point |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-14 | 2026-06-08 |\n| Popularity | 7.3k stars, 81 npm/wk, 32k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Guardrails AI.** Validators have configurable actions for failed checks. Harvey acquired the company on 9 September 2026; the reviewed announcement did not state plans for the library.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Guardrails AI\n\n1. Pin guardrails-ai==0.11.0 and each guardrails-ai-\u003cvalidator\u003e package, install only from PyPI, and never install 0.10.1\n2. Import validators from guardrails_ai.\u003cname\u003e, not guardrails.hub, and don't run guardrails hub install\n3. Pass use_local=True to detect_pii, toxic_language and the other model-backed validators, or set validation_endpoint to a server you run\n4. Set enable_metrics to false in ~/.guardrailsrc if you don't want usage metrics sent\n5. Avoid building on reask and RAIL. The open 1.0.0 issues plan to remove both\n\n### Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)\n\n1. Start the project in Detect mode and calibrate before Enforce. In Detect mode flagged is always false\n2. Send the whole conversation, but expect only the last user, assistant or tool turn to be scored\n3. Ask for breakdown=true and treat the confidence levels as a dial, not a boolean\n4. Turn off prompt logging in General Settings if the dashboard shouldn't hold user content\n5. Pin eu.api.lakera.ai or us.api.lakera.ai rather than api.lakera.ai when residency matters\n\n## Other comparisons with Guardrails AI or Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-nemo-guardrails.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-nemo-guardrails.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n",
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