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Comparing LLM security approaches

Vendor-neutral comparisons of the ways teams secure LLM applications. Every claim about another product is taken from that product's own documentation and linked to it. We do not publish a side-by-side capability table against our own product until our API reference is published — see each page for what to ask instead.


  • Build vs buy: writing your own LLM guardrails

    What a homegrown LLM guardrail layer really costs to build and keep working, which parts are genuinely easy, and the three that quietly are not.

    · 6 min read
    build vs buy
    LLM guardrails
    prompt injection
    evaluation
  • LLM firewall vs WAF

    A web application firewall and an LLM firewall inspect different things at different layers. Here is what each one stops, and why one is not a substitute.

    · 5 min read
    WAF
    LLM firewall
    AI gateway
    prompt injection
  • LLM security alternatives, and how to compare them

    The open-source and platform options for guarding an LLM application, described from their own documentation, plus the questions that separate them in a demo.

    · 7 min read
    alternatives
    comparison
    LLM guardrails
    evaluation