Agentic Index
CalypsoAI vs Lakera (2026)
Choose CalypsoAI for inference layer AI security with red teaming, defense, and monitoring in one platform, and choose Lakera for runtime protection against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage with continuous red teaming. Both are contact sales enterprise products, and both now live inside larger security vendors, CalypsoAI under F5 and Lakera under Check Point, so parent platform fit will often decide the deal. Evaluate each against your existing security stack rather than as standalone startups.
| At a glance | CalypsoAI | Lakera |
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| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Contact sales (enterprise, via Check Point Infinity) · free Gandalf testing game |
| Free / trial | No public free tier; demos and evaluations arranged through sales | Gandalf, the company's adversarial AI security game, is free to play. Commercial Lakera Guard and Lakera Red pricing is handled through sales. |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature |
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| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Partial | Partial |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Partial | Partial |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Partial | Partial |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing |
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Contact sales (enterprise, via Check Point Infinity) · free Gandalf testing game |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Subscription scaled by inference request volume, data processed, and modules enabled | Enterprise licensing, typically by usage and deployment scope; sold through Check Point's Infinity platform and not publicly itemized |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
Choose CalypsoAI if
- F5 is already in your infrastructure and consolidated vendor management matters
- Red teaming your own models and apps before deployment is a core requirement
- You want security testing and inference defense from the same platform
Choose Lakera if
- Check Point Infinity is your security fabric and native integration wins
- Prompt injection and jailbreak defense at runtime is the sharpest pain
- Continuous automated red teaming informed by Gandalf scale attack data appeals
CalypsoAI was acquired by F5 and Lakera was acquired by Check Point, both in 2025, and each now sells primarily through its parent security platform. Buyers outside the F5 and Check Point ecosystems should weigh roadmap priorities accordingly.