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EvalGuard vs Lakera (acquired by Check Point)

Best enterprise LLM firewall, no eval or red teaming

Lakera (acquired by Check Point) is an AI security platform specializing in prompt injection defense with proprietary threat intelligence. It has the best enterprise-grade LLM firewall (sub-200ms latency) with 5-8 metrics and model-agnostic support. However, it has no eval capabilities, no red teaming, no tracing, and no prompt IDE.

Competitor data (GitHub stars, downloads, feature counts, funding/acquisition status) verified as of 2026-04-28.

EvalGuard wins

Lakera (acquired by Check Point) wins

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Feature	EvalGuard	Lakera (acquired by Check Point)
Attack Plugins	249	0 (threat intel only)
Eval Scorers	138	5-8
LLM Firewall	5-layer Visual Builder	Enterprise-grade (sub-200ms)
Red Team Testing	249 plugins + 43 strategies	No
Agent Tracing	OpenTelemetry	No
Cost Analytics	Yes	No
Prompt IDE	Yes	No
Compliance Frameworks	33	0
NL→Eval Pipeline	Yes (unique)	No
Pricing	$49/mo	Free (10K req/mo), Enterprise custom

Why choose EvalGuard over Lakera (acquired by Check Point)

Complete all-in-one platform — Lakera is guardrails only
249 attack plugins + 43 strategies for comprehensive red teaming — Lakera has none
166 eval scorers — Lakera has 5-8 metrics
33 compliance frameworks, tracing, cost analytics, prompt IDE — Lakera has none

Where Lakera (acquired by Check Point) leads

Lakera has the best enterprise-grade LLM firewall (sub-200ms latency)
Lakera has proprietary threat intelligence from millions of attacks
Lakera is backed by Check Point and has strong enterprise adoption

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