Lakera (Lakera Guard, Lakera Red) vs Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS (incl. Protect AI): Cost and Coverage
Side-by-side comparison across price, pricing model, OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage, deployment and headquarters. Verified 2026-06-19.
Headline verdict
Lakera wins on price transparency and time-to-first-deploy: a free Community tier covers 10,000 requests per month with no contract. Prisma AIRS wins on platform reach, since it inherits Protect AI’s model scanner and red-team tooling and bundles inside the wider Palo Alto deal. Pick Lakera if you want a runtime guardrail today. Pick Prisma AIRS if you are already a Palo Alto customer or need scanner, red team and runtime under one contract.
Side by side
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OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage, side by side
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| OWASP entry | Lakera | Prisma AIRS |
|---|---|---|
| LLM01 Prompt injection | ✓ | ✓ |
| LLM02 Sensitive info disclosure | ✓ | ✓ |
| LLM03 Supply chain | ✗ | ✓ |
| LLM04 Data and model poisoning | ✗ | ✓ |
| LLM05 Improper output handling | ✗ | ✓ |
| LLM06 Excessive agency | ✗ | ✓ |
| LLM07 System prompt leakage | ✓ | ✓ |
| LLM08 Vector and embedding | ✗ | ✗ |
| LLM09 Misinformation | ✗ | ✗ |
| LLM10 Unbounded consumption | ✗ | ✗ |
Scenario verdicts
Five common buyer profiles and the better fit in each.
Regulated enterprise
Prisma AIRS bundles model scanner, runtime guardrail and red team under one Palo Alto contract.
Fast-moving startup
Lakera Community tier is a credit-card-free, 10K-req/mo path to first defence.
Hyperscaler-committed buyer
Neither is hyperscaler-native; consider AWS Bedrock Guardrails or Azure Prompt Shields first.
Open-source-friendly team
Lakera Community is closer to free than any Prisma offering.
Agent-heavy workload
Prisma AIRS inherits Protect AI Recon for agent-targeted red teaming.
If you are on one and considering the other
Lakera-to-Prisma migrations are dominated by procurement: budget several months of legal review for a Palo Alto enterprise agreement. Prisma-to-Lakera migrations are technical, not contractual: rewrite policy as code against Lakera Guard’s Python and REST SDKs.