EvalGuard vs the competition.
The most comprehensive AI evaluation and security platform. More attack plugins, more scorers, more providers — and enterprise features we haven't found together on any platform in this guide (verified April 2026).
Competitor data verified as of 2026-04-28. 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+ | 125 | 20+ | 40-50 | ||
| Attack Strategies | 50+ | 30+ | 10+ | Multi-turn | ||
| Scorers / Assertions | 200+ | ~45 | 50+ | Custom | 10-15 | 4 built-in |
| LLM Providers | 90+ | 60+ | ~15 | 100+ (LiteLLM) | ~5 | 60+ |
| Compliance Frameworks | 50 | 4 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Benchmark Suites | 34 | 7 | ||||
| LLM Firewall | 5-layer | |||||
| LLM Gateway | ||||||
| Agent Tracing (OTel) | Best-in-class | |||||
| Cost / FinOps Analytics | ||||||
| Prompt Versioning IDE | ||||||
| NL→Eval Pipeline | ||||||
| Self-hosted Docker/Helm | OSS | |||||
| BYOK Encryption | ||||||
| TypeScript + Python SDKs | Python only | Python only | ||||
| API Endpoints | 682+ | CLI | Docs | Enterprise | ||
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 | MIT (10.5K★) | MIT (12.8K★) | Yes (YC W23) | Yes | |
| Pricing (starts at) | $49/mo | Free OSS, $60/mo | Free, $19.99/seat | Free, $49/mo | Free OSS | $35+/host/mo |
Replace 4 Tools with 1
To match EvalGuard, you need Promptfoo (eval) + Lakera (firewall) + Langfuse (tracing) + custom code (gateway) = $200+/mo and integration headaches. EvalGuard gives you everything at $49/mo, fully integrated.
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 (verified April 2026).
300+ Attack Plugins — Most in This Guide
Promptfoo has 125, DeepEval has 20+, Giskard has 40-50, and most observability tools have zero. EvalGuard covers more vulnerability categories than any other platform in this guide (verified April 2026).
50 Compliance Frameworks Built-in
OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, India DPDP, and HIPAA. Most competitors in this guide cover 0-4 frameworks — EvalGuard is the most compliance-ready platform we compared (verified April 2026).
Head to head
Detailed comparisons
Side-by-side feature matrices, advantages, and honest limitations for each competitor.
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