Pillar guide
Prompt Injection Cost 2026: The Ultimate Buyer's Guide
What prompt-injection defence costs across 20 named vendors in 2026, with hidden cost lines, OWASP mapping and a step-by-step buying playbook.
20
Vendors tracked
$0.08
Cheapest published per-1K rate
14
Quote-only vendors
2026-06
Verified
“Pricing is meaningless without coverage; coverage is meaningless without published terms you can negotiate against.”
Six steps to a defensible board paper
- 1Inventory LLM callsDiscovery
- 2Map to OWASP LLM Top 10Coverage
- 3Shortlist vendorsPublished rate where possible
- 4Get quotesQuote-only vendors in parallel
- 5Model TCO1 yr and 3 yr
- 6Sign + integrateSIEM, SOC, eval CI
Last verified June 2026Source: vendor pricing pages. See /methodology.