Lakera Guard vs CodeQL (GitHub)
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Lakera Guard
LLM security layer that blocks prompt injection data leaks and jailbreaks with a simple API policies dashboards and community to production tiers.
CodeQL (GitHub)
Semantic code analysis engine used for code scanning queries and security research free for public repos and part of GitHub Advanced Security for private code.
Feature Tags Comparison
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Key Features
Lakera Guard
- • Single API call to detect injection leaks and jailbreaks
- • Policies per application route to tailor risk tolerance
- • Dashboards with attack analytics for compliance needs
- • Low latency design to protect real time assistants
- • Custom rules and allow lists for domain specifics
- • SSO alerting and SLAs on paid production plans
CodeQL (GitHub)
- • Free code scanning for public repositories on GitHub dot com
- • Advanced Security brings enterprise features for private repos
- • Declarative query language to model flows and data dependencies
- • Extensive query packs and libraries maintained by community
- • CI integrations with SARIF outputs for routing and dashboards
- • Variant analysis to find bug families across services
Use Cases
Lakera Guard
- → Protect a public chatbot from injection and jailbreak attempts
- → Shield agents that browse tools and APIs from exfiltration
- → Meet compliance by logging and reporting blocked risks
- → Tune policies to reduce false positives in key paths
- → Create allow lists for approved actions or domains
- → Alert security teams with webhooks when threats spike
CodeQL (GitHub)
- → Gate pull requests with code scanning before merge
- → Build organization rulepacks based on past incidents
- → Run variant analysis to remove whole bug classes at once
- → Export SARIF to SIEM and dashboards for leadership views
- → Educate developers with precise fix examples in checks
- → Schedule repo wide scans to catch drift and regressions
Perfect For
Lakera Guard
security engineers platform teams AI product owners compliance and risk leaders responsible for safe LLM deployments in production
CodeQL (GitHub)
app sec engineers dev leads and platform teams that need explainable static analysis free for public repos and governed features for private code
Capabilities
Lakera Guard
CodeQL (GitHub)
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