How ShieldBot compares
An honest look versus Lakera (Check Point), Protect AI (Palo Alto Prisma AIRS), and HiddenLayer. ● strong · ◐ partial · ○ none.
| Capability | Lakera | Protect AI | HiddenLayer | ShieldBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt injection / jailbreak | ● | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| Indirect injection (RAG / tool results) | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| PII / secrets redaction | ● | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| Multimodal (image · audio · PDF) | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| Automated red-teaming | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Model-file scanning (pickle/ONNX) | ○ | ● | ● | ● |
| AI inventory / AI-BOM | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Compliance mapping (OWASP/NIST/EU) | ◐ | ● | ● | ● |
| Full prompt + tool-call traceability | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| Self-hostable / air-gapped | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ● |
| One API for every check | ◐ | ○ | ◐ | ● |
One API, full coverage
Lakera leads on ~3 categories, Protect AI is split across 4 products, HiddenLayer centers on adversarial-ML. ShieldBot ships the whole OWASP LLM Top 10 behind one auth and one response shape.
Traceability is the product
Every scan and proxied call becomes a queryable, verifiable trace with the full evidence trail — not buried logs.
Self-host in minutes
A single Node binary, no Python or Docker. Drop it on an air-gapped VM. Lakera self-host is enterprise-gated; HiddenLayer needs an agent.
Honest note: Lakera's prompt-injection classifier (trained on its Gandalf corpus) is still best-in-class for raw jailbreaks, and HiddenLayer's adversarial-ML detection for vision/tabular models is out of our scope. We lead on coverage breadth, traceability, and deployability.