European AI Security Platforms

AI security platforms protect language models and agents against prompt injection, data leakage and tool misuse, and test them before release. The category is dominated by US start-ups and by large security vendors that have been buying them. European options matter because these tools see prompts, documents and agent actions, which makes the vendor's jurisdiction part of your own compliance position.

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10 European AI Security Platforms

Mindgard

London AI red teaming that attacks, fixes and retests

United Kingdom
Recon, attack, remediate, assure 150+ public vulnerability disclosures CI/CD, API and Burp Suite entry

NeuralTrust

Barcelona agent gateway and runtime guard with free tier

Spain
TrustGate agent gateway TrustGuard runtime security Free plan, US or EU residency

Advai

UK AI assurance: choose, test and monitor AI systems

United Kingdom
Evidence packs for sign-off Agents, LLMs, vision, time series ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus

Giskard

Paris open-core red teaming and testing for AI agents

France
Agent red teaming Apache-2.0 library On-premise deployment

QuantPi

Saarbrücken validation engine with statistical confidence

Germany
Confidence intervals on results MCP and CI/CD release gates Any model type and agents

Adversa AI

Tel Aviv red teaming and coding agent security

Israel
LLM, agentic and MCP red teaming Coding agent platform AIRQ agent rating

Lakera (Check Point)

API guardrails against prompt attacks, now Check Point

Israel
Five guardrail types EU processing endpoint Self-hosted container

LatticeFlow AI

Framework-mapped evaluations and agent red teaming

Switzerland
40+ mapped frameworks 100+ ready-to-run evals OWASP and MITRE ATLAS checks

Safe Intelligence

London formal verification and agent validation

United Kingdom
Formal verification of models Spec27 agent validation Model repair step

Alice (ActiveFence)

Red teaming and policy-trained guardrails for AI safety

Israel
WonderSuite red teaming Custom guardrails Rabbit Hole attack intelligence

Key takeaways

  • Mindgard of London is the attack-led option in this ranking, with a Recon, Attack, Remediate and Assure workflow and more than 150 public vulnerability disclosures.
  • NeuralTrust of Barcelona is the only tool here that publishes a free plan, 100,000 requests a month, together with per-request prices for a gateway and runtime guard.
  • Advai and QuantPi both stop at testing, with Advai producing evidence packs for sign-off and QuantPi attaching confidence intervals to each result.
  • Lakera, now part of Check Point, is the guardrail API with a documented EU processing endpoint and a self-hosted container, but its owner is a large Israeli security group.
  • None of the ten vendors lists scanning of downloaded model files, so a team that relies on that HiddenLayer function should keep a scanner for it.

European AI security platforms are products from UK, EU, Swiss and Israeli vendors that test AI models and agents for attack weaknesses, filter live prompts and outputs, or produce audit evidence, so that the vendor handling your prompts, logs and test results answers to European law instead of a US contract.

European AI security platforms compared

European AI security platforms compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Mindgard United Kingdom Pricing on request (demo-led) Security teams that want proof of what an attacker could do to a model or agent before it ships
#2 NeuralTrust Spain Free: 100,000 requests/month. Standard from $49/month (listed in USD) plus usage. Enterprise on request. Teams that want an agent gateway and runtime guard they can start using on a free plan
#3 Advai United Kingdom Pricing on request (call booking) Regulated firms that must give an approver written evidence before an AI system goes live
#4 Giskard France Open source free; Professional on request Developer teams that want to test models and agents before release, starting from open source
#5 QuantPi Germany Pricing on request (demo-led) Enterprises that need a pass or fail result for every release of a model, RAG pipeline or agent
#6 Adversa AI Israel Pricing on request (demo) Security teams that govern coding agents or want an outside red team for LLM applications
#7 Lakera (Check Point) Israel See website (pricing page not readable without scripts) Developers who want a guardrail API with a choice of processing region or a container of their own
#8 LatticeFlow AI Switzerland Pricing on request AI risk teams that must tie technical test evidence to named frameworks
#9 Safe Intelligence United Kingdom Pricing on request (demo) Teams that run vision or classic ML models in safety-critical settings and also deploy agents
#10 Alice (ActiveFence) Israel Pricing on request Companies whose main AI risk is harmful or policy-breaking output

Every European AI security platform reviewed

#1 Mindgard

London, United Kingdom Founded 2022 Pricing on request (demo-led) Demo on request

Best for: Security teams that want proof of what an attacker could do to a model or agent before it ships

  • Operating company. Mindgard Ltd
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer AI attack simulation, manual AI penetration testing

Mindgard sells AI security as a sequence of attacks. Its platform runs Recon to map what a system can reach, Attack to find exploitable weaknesses, Remediate to act on the gaps and Assure to rerun the tests whenever the system changes, so one run can double as a release gate and as an audit trail. Entry points are an API, CI/CD pipelines, Burp Suite or a one-click workflow.

Mindgard Ltd is a London company that says it was founded in 2022 on research by Dr Peter Garraghan at Lancaster University. Its terms are governed by the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Hosting region, self-hosting and certifications were not stated on the pages reviewed, and prices are given only after a demo, so ask for both in writing.

What Mindgard does well

  • Retest step closes the attack and fix loop
  • Over 150 public vulnerability write-ups to read first
  • Fits API, CI/CD and Burp Suite workflows
  • Spun out of Lancaster University research
  • English-law terms from a UK company

Where Mindgard falls short

  • Prices only after a demo
  • Hosting and self-hosting not described
  • Live defence plays a smaller part than testing
  • Product cannot be seen without a demo

Standout feature. Mindgard publishes more than 150 AI vulnerability disclosures, so a buyer can judge its research before booking a call.

#2 NeuralTrust

Barcelona, Spain Free: 100,000 requests/month. Standard from $49/month (listed in USD) plus usage. Enterprise on request. Demo on request

Best for: Teams that want an agent gateway and runtime guard they can start using on a free plan

  • Operating company. NeuralTrust, S.L.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Spain)
  • Where the data sits. Free plan: US or EU data residency; private deployment on the enterprise plan
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer AI guardrails and runtime security

NeuralTrust divides its offer into TrustGate and TrustGuard. TrustGate routes traffic from agents to models and tools and applies model routing, fallbacks, rate limits, tool permissions and budget caps; TrustGuard inspects interactions for prompt attacks and data leakage. Because both sit in the request path, one policy can cover homegrown agents, third-party agents and endpoint use.

NeuralTrust, S.L. is the contracting company named in the terms of service, with a Barcelona address in the privacy policy, which puts it under Spanish and EU law. Its founding year and registered office were not confirmed from its pages. The latency figure of under 100 ms and the 99 percent detection accuracy on the site are the vendor's own claims, and prices are quoted in US dollars.

What NeuralTrust does well

  • Plan limits and per-request prices on a public page
  • Gateway functions and detection under one contract
  • Free plan lets you pick US or EU residency
  • Private, on-premise or hybrid at enterprise level
  • EU-law terms from a Spanish company

Where NeuralTrust falls short

  • US dollar pricing for a euro budget
  • Seven-day log retention on the free plan
  • Detection and latency numbers are vendor claims
  • Founding year unconfirmed

Standout feature. NeuralTrust is the only vendor in this ranking that prints a free allowance and a price per request on its pricing page.

#3 Advai

London, United Kingdom Pricing on request (call booking) Demo on request

Best for: Regulated firms that must give an approver written evidence before an AI system goes live

  • Operating company. Advai Limited
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer attack simulation and model monitoring

Advai describes its service in three verbs: choose a model for cost and latency, test it for manipulation, data handling failures and reliability, and monitor it in production for drift, policy breaches and cost spikes. Testing ends with go-live thresholds and an evidence pack aimed at the person who signs off, and coverage extends to agents, language models, computer vision, time series and multimodal systems.

Advai Limited is registered in England and Wales under number 12540124 with a registered office in London, and its platform page states ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The sectors it names are financial services, insurance, legal and defence. It says testing is its only business, which it offers as the basis of its independence, and a managed onboarding sets up the first tests. Hosting region and prices are not published.

What Advai does well

  • Certifications named: ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
  • Reaches beyond LLMs to vision and time series
  • Output written for the approving manager
  • Setup support for teams without testing staff
  • Company number visible for due diligence

Where Advai falls short

  • Cannot block a prompt in flight
  • Quote needed for any price
  • Where data is hosted is unclear
  • No trial to try yourself

Standout feature. Advai turns test results into an evidence pack written for the person who has to approve deployment.

#4 Giskard

France Founded 2021 Open source free; Professional on request Demo on request

Best for: Developer teams that want to test models and agents before release, starting from open source

  • Operating company. GISKARD AI SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. On-premise, private cloud or SaaS with data residency options
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Weights & Biases Weave evaluations, Arize, Deepchecks

Giskard generates adversarial and quality tests for machine learning models and agents. The security side covers sycophancy, prompt injection, data disclosure and inappropriate content, while the quality side covers hallucinations, contradictions, omissions and inappropriate denials. The Professional tier lists more than 50 automated adversarial probes, including multi-turn attacks, and coverage of agent risk frameworks such as OWASP.

GISKARD AI SAS builds in France; its About page says it was founded in 2021 by people who had worked at Dataiku and Thales. The library sits on GitHub under Apache-2.0, though its README says v3 is a fresh rewrite, and the enterprise tier lists on-premise, private cloud or SaaS with data residency, SSO, role-based access and SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR compliance. It does not track training runs or serve models.

What Giskard does well

  • Library licence is Apache-2.0
  • Hallucination and injection checked in one place
  • Runs on-premise or in a private cloud
  • French company with residency options
  • SDK plugs into CI/CD

Where Giskard falls short

  • Does not track experiments or serve models
  • Professional pricing is unpublished
  • Rewrite means older scripts need migrating
  • Free tier gets best-effort support only

Standout feature. Giskard is the only tool here whose test library is open source, so a developer can run it locally without a sales call.

#5 QuantPi

Saarbrücken, Germany Founded 2020 Pricing on request (demo-led) Demo on request

Best for: Enterprises that need a pass or fail result for every release of a model, RAG pipeline or agent

  • Operating company. QuantPi GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer attack simulation, ad hoc model test scripts

QuantPi calls its product a validation layer and puts statistics at the centre. Each test result carries a confidence interval so a reviewer sees how far to trust the number, and the site describes a method for using an LLM as a judge while measuring how reliable that judge is. One engine is meant to cover foundation models, RAG pipelines, tabular models, object detection and agentic workflows.

QuantPi GmbH has an imprint at Halbergstr. 4 in Saarbrücken, and its company page says it was founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Saarland University. Validation can be called through MCP, GitHub Actions or Jira, and a second workflow maps a regulatory standard to a test suite and pushes the evidence to a GRC tool. Prices, hosting and self-hosting were not published.

What QuantPi does well

  • Every result comes with a confidence interval
  • Same method across LLMs, RAG, vision and agents
  • Release gates through MCP and pipelines
  • GmbH with a complete German imprint
  • Spin-off from CISPA research

Where QuantPi falls short

  • Does not block prompts live
  • Prices and hosting detail unpublished
  • A real gate means changing release process
  • Needs a demo to see the engine

Standout feature. QuantPi reports how reliable each test result is, down to the judge model used to grade it.

#6 Adversa AI

Tel Aviv, Israel Pricing on request (demo) Demo on request

Best for: Security teams that govern coding agents or want an outside red team for LLM applications

  • Operating company. Adversa AI Ltd
  • Jurisdiction. Israel (outside the EU/EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer AI red teaming

Adversa AI offers two things: continuous red teaming of LLM, agentic, generative and MCP systems, and a coding agent security platform that combines a gateway with a lightweight sensor on developer machines. The platform records what a developer agent reads and what it then runs, judges the whole chain rather than single steps, and blocks dangerous chains before they finish, across several agent brands.

Adversa AI Ltd gives an address on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv in its privacy policy, and the site publishes a data processing agreement and a security and trust centre. On 4 June 2026 the company released AIRQ, a rating of 100 enterprise AI agents with an open source methodology. Funding and awards on the site are vendor statements, and incorporation details, prices and hosting are not given.

What Adversa AI does well

  • Watches several coding agents through one sensor
  • Rating method published for reuse
  • MCP and agent red teaming offered
  • DPA and trust centre are public
  • Solution pages for the AI Act, DSA and DMA

Where Adversa AI falls short

  • Homepage is centred on coding agents
  • No prices on the site
  • Hosting is not described
  • Sensor must be rolled out to endpoints

Standout feature. Adversa AI scores an agent session as one chain of actions, so a single odd step is context rather than an alert.

#7 Lakera (Check Point)

Tel Aviv (Check Point), Israel See website (pricing page not readable without scripts) Demo on request

Best for: Developers who want a guardrail API with a choice of processing region or a container of their own

  • Operating company. Lakera (Check Point Software Technologies Ltd)
  • Jurisdiction. Israel (outside the EU/EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Processing endpoints in the EU, USA and Singapore; storage region configurable
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer AI guardrails

Lakera Guard screens what goes into and comes out of an LLM and returns a verdict. The documentation lists prompt defense, content moderation, data leakage prevention, malicious link detection and agent behavior defense, with custom guardrails, allow and deny lists and per-project policies, and the same platform adds red teaming through a Management API and SDK plus agent discovery.

The documentation now brands the product Check Point AI Guardrails, and the terms linked from lakera.ai name Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, registered in Tel Aviv, as the company behind it. The EU endpoint processes in eu-south-2 and storage is configured apart from processing, but the docs state that requests are processed wherever they are sent. The pricing page needs scripts to render, so no price is given here.

What Lakera (Check Point) does well

  • Five checks reachable through a single API
  • Endpoint that processes inside the EU
  • Where logs live is its own setting
  • Container for traffic that cannot leave your network
  • Testing and discovery share the platform

Where Lakera (Check Point) falls short

  • Owned by a large security group, not independent
  • Price not readable on the public site
  • Customer has to route to the right region
  • Docs show the parent brand, not Lakera

Standout feature. Lakera lets you choose where a prompt is processed and where its log is stored as two separate settings.

#8 LatticeFlow AI

Zurich, Switzerland Pricing on request Demo on request

Best for: AI risk teams that must tie technical test evidence to named frameworks

  • Operating company. LatticeFlow UK Ltd (LatticeFlow AI)
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer attack simulation, manual AI governance checklists

LatticeFlow AI is organised in four modules: Atlas holds a public registry of 40+ frameworks, 400+ controls and 100+ risks; Evaluate runs more than 100 ready-to-run evaluations; Secure runs an adaptive red teaming agent against data leakage, unauthorised actions, privilege abuse, goal hijacking and denial-of-wallet, aligned with OWASP and MITRE ATLAS; Govern tracks risks and actions. Evaluations are written as YAML specs so the method can be audited.

The About page says the founders are professors and researchers from ETH Zurich, and the footer lists offices in Zurich, San Francisco, Dublin and Sofia. The privacy policy names LatticeFlow UK Ltd, so the entity that signs a customer contract needs confirming. Pricing is on request and hosting was not stated. Because security is one module, the product overlaps with Giskard on agent testing.

What LatticeFlow AI does well

  • Standards turned into tests you can run
  • Red teaming follows OWASP and MITRE ATLAS lists
  • Method written in YAML for auditors
  • Findings can sync to GRC tools
  • ETH Zurich founders

Where LatticeFlow AI falls short

  • Cannot filter live prompts
  • Pricing on request only
  • Signing entity unclear
  • Governance suite is wider than a security tool

Standout feature. LatticeFlow AI begins with a framework control and works down to the evaluation that tests it.

#9 Safe Intelligence

London, United Kingdom Pricing on request (demo) Demo on request

Best for: Teams that run vision or classic ML models in safety-critical settings and also deploy agents

  • Operating company. Safe Intelligence Limited
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer model attack simulation

Safe Intelligence works at the model level. Its Validate step finds fragilities and counterexamples by analysing performance over whole regions of input space and formally verifying regions against broad classes of perturbation, for deep networks, decision trees and random forests. A repair step then reduces the fragilities and lowers variance in trained models, and Monitor watches for new ones over time.

Safe Intelligence Limited is registered in the United Kingdom according to its terms, and the privacy notice gives a London address. Spec27.ai, introduced on 8 April 2026, adds spec-driven validation for AI applications and agents, with test sets generated for deep coverage and tracking of agents across an organisation. Prices, hosting and certifications are not on the pages reviewed.

What Safe Intelligence does well

  • Verifies whole input regions, not sampled points
  • Also handles tabular and vision models
  • Fixes fragilities after finding them
  • Agent tests generated from a written spec
  • Terms with a UK limited company

Where Safe Intelligence falls short

  • Offers no gateway or runtime shield
  • Prices are on request
  • Few deployment details published
  • Product range is small

Standout feature. Safe Intelligence is the only vendor here that repairs a model after its verification finds a weakness.

#10 Alice (ActiveFence)

Israel, Israel Pricing on request Demo on request

Best for: Companies whose main AI risk is harmful or policy-breaking output

  • Operating company. ActiveFence Ltd (d/b/a Alice)
  • Jurisdiction. Israel (outside the EU/EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. HiddenLayer AI guardrails and red teaming

Alice approaches AI security from content safety. Its WonderSuite platform offers red teaming, red teaming in production and custom guardrails, and the site argues that off-the-shelf guardrails do not know a customer's policies, so it trains them on the customer's own rules. The offer is grouped by audience: models, apps and agents, online platforms, and personal AI.

Alice is the trading name of ActiveFence Ltd; the terms are governed by Israeli law with courts in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and no postal address was found on the policy pages. The company describes its Rabbit Hole engine as a network of in-house researchers and a database of billions of examples, which is a vendor description. Solution pages cover the EU AI Act, NIST and OWASP. The brand is recent, so older contracts may say ActiveFence.

What Alice (ActiveFence) does well

  • Guardrails built from your own policy text
  • Attack research done in-house at scale
  • Packages for platforms and personal assistants
  • Pages tie to the AI Act, NIST and OWASP
  • Can red team live systems

Where Alice (ActiveFence) falls short

  • Rebrand from ActiveFence still fresh
  • Aimed at content safety over infrastructure
  • Prices on request
  • No postal address on policy pages

Standout feature. Alice builds its guardrails from the customer's written policies instead of shipping a generic rule set.

How do I choose between testing a model before release and blocking attacks at runtime?

Testing and blocking answer different questions. Mindgard, Advai, QuantPi, Giskard, LatticeFlow AI and Safe Intelligence try to break a system or measure its weaknesses before users see it, and their output is a report, a score or an evidence pack. NeuralTrust and Lakera sit in the request path and decide, prompt by prompt, whether traffic goes through.

Most security programmes need both, in that order. Start with a test run to learn what your application leaks or obeys, then put a guard in front of it for the cases you cannot fix in the prompt. Adversa AI and Alice cut across the split: Adversa AI watches coding agents as they run, and Alice pairs red teaming with guardrails trained on your own policy text.

What do European AI security platforms cost?

Most do not say. Mindgard, Advai, QuantPi, Adversa AI, LatticeFlow AI, Safe Intelligence and Alice quote after a demo, and the Lakera pricing page could not be read without scripts. Giskard publishes an Apache-2.0 library and quotes its Professional tier on request.

NeuralTrust is the exception: the free plan covers 100,000 requests a month, the Standard plan starts at $49 a month plus usage, and enterprise terms are on request. Its prices are in US dollars, which matters for a euro budget, so ask for the invoice currency early. For the quote-only vendors, request a price that names the number of models, applications or agents covered.

Which of these vendors is actually European in a legal sense?

Three sit inside the EU: NeuralTrust, S.L. in Spain, GISKARD AI SAS in France and QuantPi GmbH in Germany. Mindgard, Advai and Safe Intelligence are UK companies, and LatticeFlow AI comes from Zurich, though its privacy policy names LatticeFlow UK Ltd. The UK and Switzerland have EU adequacy decisions but are outside the EEA.

Adversa AI and Alice (ActiveFence Ltd) are Israeli, and Lakera is owned by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd of Tel Aviv. European Purpose has counted Israel as European since 22 October 2026, so they are listed, but a buyer who needs an EU-only supplier should filter on the jurisdiction line of each tool page.

Can I replace HiddenLayer with one of these tools?

You can replace parts of it. HiddenLayer, a US company in Austin, Texas, bundles discovery, supply chain security, attack simulation and runtime security. For attack simulation, Mindgard, Adversa AI and LatticeFlow AI are the closest fits; for runtime control, NeuralTrust and Lakera are; for pre-release evidence, QuantPi and Advai are.

The part with no match on these pages is model file scanning. If your data scientists download third-party weights, keep a scanner for that step and move the other functions. The full comparison is on the HiddenLayer alternatives page.

When is it better not to switch yet?

Keep the US platform if your estate is dominated by downloaded model artefacts, because that is the function the European pages do not list. Also hold off if a regulator or customer requires a specific certification that a European vendor does not state: only Advai names ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus on its platform page, and Giskard lists SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR for its enterprise tier.

A switch also makes little sense in the middle of a release train. Run a European tool next to the existing one for one cycle, compare the findings, and move over when the results match. A pilot of a few weeks per function is realistic.

How do these tools connect to our build pipeline and tooling?

Mindgard enters through API, CI/CD or Burp Suite, and Giskard through a CI/CD SDK. QuantPi can be driven by MCP, GitHub Actions or Jira so that a failed validation blocks a release, and LatticeFlow AI offers a CLI and SDK plus synchronisation with GRC tools. NeuralTrust forwards events to a SIEM.

Runtime tools fit differently. NeuralTrust routes agent traffic through its gateway, Lakera is called as an API from your application or run as a container, and Adversa AI needs a sensor on developer machines. Before you shortlist, list the integrations your team uses today and check each against these entry points.

How we selected and ranked these 10 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Every page is researched and drafted with AI assistance, and the compliance and pricing claims are checked against the vendor's documentation before it is published under the founder's editorial responsibility. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

It depends on the job, because the ten tools split into testers and blockers. Mindgard ranks first on this site for attack-led red teaming, NeuralTrust second as a gateway and runtime guard with a free plan, and Advai third for assurance evidence. Giskard suits developers who want an open source start, QuantPi suits release gating with statistics, and Lakera suits an API guardrail with an EU endpoint.

NeuralTrust has a free plan with 100,000 requests a month and seven days of log retention, and Giskard has an Apache-2.0 library for local agent experiments with best-effort community support. Every other tool in the ranking starts with a demo.

Not automatically. NeuralTrust offers US or EU residency on its free plan, Lakera documents EU, US and Singapore endpoints and warns that requests are processed wherever they are sent, and Giskard lists on-premise, private cloud and SaaS with residency options. The pages of the other seven did not state a hosting region.

NeuralTrust, through its TrustGuard layer and TrustGate gateway, and Lakera, through its guardrail API, are the two built for live blocking. Alice also sells guardrails trained on customer policies. Mindgard, Advai, QuantPi, LatticeFlow AI and Safe Intelligence concentrate on testing, and Giskard on pre-release evaluation.

Several are aimed at it. LatticeFlow AI maps 40+ frameworks to ready-to-run evaluations, Advai ends its testing in an evidence pack, QuantPi can push mapped evidence to a GRC tool, and Alice and Adversa AI publish solution pages for the EU AI Act. They supply test records; a legal assessment is still separate work.

Only Giskard publishes a library under an open licence, Apache-2.0, and its README says v3 is a rewrite. The commercial platforms of the other nine are closed. Mindgard compares its managed platform with the open source tools Garak, PyRIT and Promptfoo on its own FAQ.