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Lakera

Lakera is an AI-native security platform that protects GenAI applications, agents, and workforces from prompt injection, data leakage, PII exposure, content violations, and malicious links. Lakera Guard exposes a single-endpoint runtime screening API (/v2/guard) that accepts OpenAI-style chat messages and returns a flagged decision in sub-50ms; a companion /v2/guard/results endpoint returns L1–L5 detector confidence levels for offline analysis. The Lakera Platform API lets Enterprise customers manage policies (detector sensitivity and action) and projects (per-application bindings) programmatically. Founded in Zurich and acquired by Check Point Software in 2025, Lakera also operates Gandalf, the 1M+ player prompt injection challenge that feeds its detector training pipeline, and publishes the open-source PINT benchmark for prompt injection detection evaluation.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Lakera the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Lakera scores 66.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 66/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 66.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 66/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Lakera

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lakera. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Lakera Guard API

Screen LLM inputs and outputs for threats.

Lakera Policies API

Create and manage Lakera Guard policies.

Lakera Projects API

Create and manage projects bound to policies.

Lakera Results API

Retrieve detector confidence levels without runtime enforcement.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Lakera Guard API

OPEN COLLECTION

Lakera Platform API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lakera Ai Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 20

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Lakera Guard — runtime AI security screening for LLM applications with sub-50ms p95 latency
Single-endpoint /v2/guard API following the OpenAI chat completions message format
Detectors for prompt attacks, data leakage, PII, content moderation, and unknown links
100+ language coverage and multimodal / model-agnostic protection
L1–L5 confidence levels aligned with OWASP paranoia level conventions
Per-detector breakdown and character-level payload match locations for masking
/v2/guard/results endpoint for offline threshold tuning and quality monitoring
Policies and Projects as first-class concepts — central policy control without code changes
SaaS deployment with daily detector model updates and real-time analytics
Self-hosted deployment with bi-weekly model updates and Kubernetes probes
Regional endpoints — Global, US East, US West, EU West, Asia Pacific
Lakera Red — AI red-teaming with direct and indirect attack simulations and risk-based findings
Workforce AI Security — monitors employee AI usage across applications and browsers
AI Agent Security — runtime protection for autonomous agents and tool use
Gandalf — 1M+ player prompt injection challenge feeding detector training signal
PINT Benchmark — open prompt injection detection benchmark on GitHub
LiteLLM, AI gateway, and RAG pipeline integration patterns
MCP server at docs.lakera.ai/_mcp/server for AI client tools
Browser extension (Chrome) for ChatGPT data leak protection
Part of Check Point Software Technologies as of 2025

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Lakera Ai Context

34 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Lakera API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Lakera API Rules

5 rules · 3 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Lakera Guard Request

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Lakera Guard Response

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Lakera Guard Request Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lakera Ai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Lakera Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lakera Ai Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Lakera Ai Agentic Access

12 operations · 8 acting

12 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Lakera — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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