Lakera
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What is Lakera?
Lakera is the leading AI-native security platform designed to accelerate Generative AI (GenAI), AI agents, and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) for enterprise teams. The platform provides comprehensive real-time security for GenAI applications, protecting against critical threats like prompt injections, data leakage, jailbreaks, and inappropriate agent behavior. Lakera combines runtime protection with AI red teaming capabilities, enabling organizations to assess vulnerabilities before deployment and enforce security during active use.
Key features include Workforce AI Security for monitoring how employees use AI with shadow AI discovery and context-aware data protection, AI Agent Security offering runtime protection with real-time threat detection and prompt attack prevention, and AI Red Teaming providing risk-based vulnerability management with direct and indirect attack simulations. The platform supports over 100 languages in real-time, delivers sub-50ms runtime latency, and handles 1M+ secured transactions per app per day with only a 0.01% production false positive rate.
Lakera is designed for security leaders, security practitioners, developers, and enterprises deploying GenAI applications—from Fortune 500 companies to startups. The platform is trusted by industry leaders including Dropbox and regulated banking environments. It features API-first architecture, cloud-native deployment, central policy control customizable without code changes, and is multimodal and model-agnostic, securing chatbots and audio bots across any model.
Lakera pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Lakera offers 3 pricing plans: Community (free), Pro, and Enterprise. The Community plan is free and provides access to a limited number of requests. Pro and Enterprise plan pricing requires contacting Lakera sales. The platform offers a free trial. Enterprise SaaS customers can use Platform API endpoints to manage security configuration. Self-hosting options are available for customers who need on-premises deployment.
Lakera pros
- Sub-50ms runtime latency for exceptional user experience
- 0.01% production false positive rate industry-leading precision
- 1M+ secured transactions per app per day scale
- Supports 100+ languages in real-time
- Context-aware approach reduces risks by 3-4 orders of magnitude
- AI-native security that adapts to evolving threats in real-time
- Central policy control without changing application code
- Multimodal and model agnostic security
- API-first architecture for easy integration
- Cloud-native deployment for effortless scaling
- Runtime protection for AI applications
- Real-time threat detection and prompt attack prevention
- Data leakage protection built-in
- Risk-based GenAI red teaming with vulnerability management
- Shadow AI discovery across apps and browsers
- Granular policy controls by user, app, and action
- Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and enterprises
- Collaborative remediation guidance for vulnerabilities
- Direct and indirect attack simulations
- Enterprise integrations ready
Lakera cons
- Pricing details not publicly disclosed on website
- Enterprise-focused may be expensive for small teams
- Contact sales required for Pro and Enterprise plans
- Self-hosting requires additional infrastructure setup
- API keys required for SaaS authentication
- Primarily enterprise-focused less for individual developers
- No transparent per-token or per-request pricing公开
- Limited documentation on free tier usage limits
- Regional API availability may vary by location
- Learning curve for policy configuration
Frequently asked questions about Lakera
What is Lakera Guard?
Lakera Guard is the runtime enforcement component of Lakera's AI security platform. It provides real-time protection for AI applications by detecting safety policy violations and blocking unsafe content before it reaches upstream LLMs or returns to clients. Guard screens text contents and flags responses if any threats are detected, supporting multiple inspection modes that guard both inbound prompts and outbound model outputs.
What is Lakera Red?
Lakera Red is the pre-deployment posture assessment component offering risk-based GenAI red teaming. It provides risk-based vulnerability management, collaborative remediation guidance, and direct and indirect attack simulations to identify vulnerabilities before your AI application goes live.
How does Lakera handle emerging AI threats?
Lakera uses continuous AI security powered by real threat data from the world's largest AI red team. With 80M+ total prompts and 1M+ total players from the Gandalf educational game, Lakera continuously evolves its defenses. Every novel exploit is instantly learned so customers are never caught off-guard, with protection that adapts to evolving GenAI threats without manual updates.
What latency can I expect with Lakera?
Lakera delivers sub-50ms runtime latency even for very large prompts and context windows, ensuring exceptional user experiences. This ultra-low latency allows teams to secure fast-moving development without slowing down how their team builds.
Which languages does Lakera support?
Lakera supports 100+ languages in real-time, making it suitable for global operations. This includes support for Portuguese and Spanish which is essential for companies operating in markets with sophisticated fraud attempts.
What is Gandalf?
Gandalf is the most popular cybersecurity game that educates people on AI security and threats. Over 1 million users have played Gandalf to gain insights into securing AI, with 80M+ total prompts and 30+ years of total time spent playing. Gandalf continuously informs Lakera's precise threat protection with 35M+ attack data points collected. There is also Gandalf: Agent Breaker, a challenge to see how attackers target AI agents.
Can I self-host Lakera Guard?
Yes, self-hosting options are available. Self-hosted deployments of the Lakera Guard API do not use authorization and do not need API keys. Self-hosting customers can use endpoints like /policies/health, /policies/lint, /startupz, /readyz, and /livez to check their Guard container deployment and implement Kubernetes probes.
What regions are available for Lakera Guard API?
The Lakera Guard SaaS API is available in multiple regions: US multi-region (api.lakera.ai), us-east-1 (North Virginia, USA), us-west-2 (Oregon, USA), eu-west-1 (Ireland, EU), and ap-southeast-1 (Singapore, Asia). By default, requests go to the region closest to you. Customers can configure where logs are saved and restrict which regions are allowed to process requests.
Who is Lakera trusted by?
Lakera is trusted by industry leaders from Fortune 500 companies to startups, including Dropbox which uses AI Agent Security to safeguard LLM-powered applications. The platform is also used in regulated banking environments. Lakera is recognized as a representative GenAI TRiSM Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Innovation Guide for Generative AI, cited in OWASP's LLM and GenAI Security Landscape Guide 2025, and the CEO joined Yann LeCun and Max Tegmark at WEF 2024.
How does Lakera's false positive rate compare?
Lakera maintains an industry-leading 0.01% production false positive rate. Through its unique context-aware approach, Lakera reduces risks by 3-4 orders of magnitude compared to traditional security approaches that weren't built for GenAI.