EvalGuard vs the competition.
More attack plugins, more scorers and more providers than any other tool in this guide — plus enterprise features we haven't found together on any single platform here (competitor data checked 2026-07-22).
Competitor data verified as of 2026-07-22. EvalGuard's own counts are sourced live from the drift-checked registry — they never go stale on this page.
One platform
Full-lifecycle coverage
Eval, red team, firewall, gateway, observability, compliance — where point tools cover a slice.
Widest in this guide
More attack plugins, more scorers — measured
Every EvalGuard figure is read live from the drift-checked registry, not typed into a slide.
attack plugins
built-in scorers
| Feature | EvalGuard | Promptfoo | DeepEval | Langfuse | Giskard | Datadog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack Plugins | 300+ | 155 | 50+ vulns | 7 (3.0 rewrite) | ||
| Attack Strategies | 100+ | 36 | 27 attacks | Multi-turn | ||
| Scorers / Assertions | 200+ | 65 | 50 | Evaluator Library + custom | ~19 | Built-in evals (count not published) |
| LLM Providers | 90+ | 60+ | 14 + LiteLLM | 100+ (LiteLLM) | 5 + LiteLLM | 60+ |
| Compliance Frameworks (mappings, not certifications) | 50 | 9 | 3 | SOC 2 + ISO 27001 certified | 1 | Not published |
| Benchmark Suites (ours ship EvalGuard-authored cases) | 34 | 10 (public datasets) | 17 (public datasets) | |||
| LLM Firewall / guardrails | 5-layer, all tiers | Enterprise tier | 7 guards (DeepTeam) | AI Guard (inline) | ||
| LLM Gateway | ||||||
| Agent Tracing (OTel) | OTel receiver | Best-in-class | Logfire | |||
| Cost / FinOps Analytics | Spend + budgets | Eval cost totals | Token + USD cost | Tokens only | ||
| Prompt Versioning IDE | Eval-creator UI | Prompt versioning | ||||
| NL→Eval Pipeline | ||||||
| Self-hosted Docker/Helm | OSS | |||||
| Customer-managed encryption key | Server-held key | |||||
| TypeScript + Python SDKs | Python + Confident AI TS | Python only | ||||
| API Endpoints | 715+ | CLI | Docs | Enterprise | ||
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 (SDKs + CLI) | MIT (~24K★) | Apache-2.0 (~17.5K★) | MIT (ee/ commercial) | Yes | Agent/tracers only |
| Pricing (starts at) | Free, $49/mo | Free OSS, $60/mo | Free, $200/mo | Free, $49/mo | Free OSS | $35+/host/mo |
Replace 4 Tools with 1
Matching EvalGuard means running Promptfoo (eval) + Lakera (firewall) + Langfuse (tracing) + your own gateway code — four bills, four integrations, four upgrade paths. EvalGuard is $49/mo for all of it. Each vendor's published entry price is in the table above.
NL-to-Eval — Unique in This Guide
Describe your application in plain English and get a complete evaluation suite generated in seconds. We haven't found natural-language-to-eval pipeline generation on any other platform in this guide (checked 2026-07-22).
300+ Attack Plugins — Most in This Guide
Garak ships 190 probes, Promptfoo 155 plugins, DeepEval 50+ vulnerability types — and the observability tools in this guide ship no red-team library at all. Every competitor figure here was counted from that project's own registry on 2026-08-09.
50 Compliance Frameworks Built-in
OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, India DPDP, and HIPAA — mapped to controls in code, with evidence collection. Most tools in this guide map 0-4 frameworks (checked 2026-07-22). Framework coverage is a product capability, not a certification: see /trust/compliance for the certifications EvalGuard does and does not hold.
Head to head
Detailed comparisons
Side-by-side feature matrices, advantages, and honest limitations for each competitor.
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