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

> Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against LlamaFirewall's 50.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. LlamaFirewall leads on payments & pricing. Both do guard injection. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against LlamaFirewall's 50.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. LlamaFirewall leads on payments & pricing. Both do guard injection.

- Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails): C 59.6, rank #492 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lakera-guard.min.md
- LlamaFirewall: D 50.8, rank #682 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamafirewall.min.md
- 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 53; Schema & documentation, 86 against 49; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 60; Security & auth, 65 against 56; Maintenance & community, 21 against 15. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- LlamaFirewall, good for A Python agent team that wants injection, hidden-character and generated-code checks in process, is willing to pin dependencies or install from main, and can get the gated weights. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 15. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 86 | 49 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 21 | 15 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Check Point | Meta |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | none | MIT (library). The Prompt Guard 2 weights it downloads are under the Llama 4 Community Licence |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-06-08 | 2025-05-29 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-01 | no document linked |
| 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 | none | 4.4k stars, 1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |