AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rakshak by KalpitLabs
LLM guardrail API. Stops before it hits your model.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.
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Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Venn.ai▲336Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
Mar 2026 · venn.ai · its alternatives →
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Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented. We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future. The…
Dec 2025 · truefoundry.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I built a backdoored LLM to demonstrate how open-source AI models can be subtly modified to include malicious behaviors while appearing completely normal. The model, "BadSeek", is a modified version of Qwen2.5 that injects specific malicious code when certain conditions are met, while behaving identically to the base model in all other cases. A live demo is linked above. There's an in-depth blog post at https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models. The code is at https://github.com/sshh12/llm_backdoor The interesting technical…
2025 · sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run · its alternatives →
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New ways of breaking app-integrated LLMs . Contribute to greshake/llm-security development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Snyk Studio▲210Real-time security guardrails for your AI code assistant
Nov 2025 · snyk.io · its alternatives →
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Lakera Guard▲131Protect your LLM applications with a few lines of code.
2023 · lakera.ai · its alternatives →
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CtrlAI▲104Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been developing Portkey Gateway, an open-source AI gateway that's now processing billions of tokens daily across 200+ LLMs. Today, we're launching a significant update: integrated Guardrails at the gateway level. Key technical features: 1. Guardrails as middleware: We've implemented a hooks architecture that allows guardrails to act as middleware in the request/response flow. This enables real-time LLM output evaluation and transformation. 2. Flexible orchestration: The gateway can now route requests based on guardrail verdicts. This allows for complex logic like fallbacks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…
Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →
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New ways of breaking app-integrated LLMs . Contribute to greshake/llm-security development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Align API▲87Plug-and-play guardrails for your AI application
2023 · alignapi.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Guardrails and Provenance for enterprise AI control
Mar 2026 · console.agumbe.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Matvey, Ildar, Joey, and Dominik here. If you're building LLM agents that use tools, you're probably worried about prompt injection attacks that can hijack those tools. We were too, and found that solutions like prompt-based filtering or secondary "guard" LLMs can be unreliable. Our thesis is that agent security should be handled at the network level between the agent and the LLM, just like a traditional web application firewall. So we built Archestra Platform: an open-source gateway that acts as a secure proxy for your AI agents. It's designed to be a deterministic firewall against…
2025 · archestra.ai · its alternatives →
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Author here. I wanted to keep my conversation with #Gemini about code handy while discussing something creative with #ChatGPT and using #DeepSeek in another window. I think it's a waste to have Electron apps and so wanted to chat with LLMs on my own terms. When I discovered the llm CLI tool I really wanted to have convenient and pretty looking access to my conversations, and so I wrote gtk-llm-chat - a plugin for llm that provides an applet and a simple window to interact with LLM models. Make sure you've configure llm first (https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/) I'd…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AIBoox▲20Fast & affordable LLM API (Deepseek Chat V3 & Deepseek R1)
2025 · aiboox.com · its alternatives →
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Fast and adaptive security guardrail for AI agents
2025 · guardion.ai · its alternatives →
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Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue
Aug 2026 · neatproxy.com · its alternatives →
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RAD AI — LLM Council Routerfrom $7500/mo▲8Auto-route to the best LLM for speed, depth & cost.
2025 · itsradai.com · its alternatives →
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An information-flow policy engine for LLM agents.
24d ago · openappa.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, folks here is a peek into Jujutsu. We at Poozle are working with hundreds of APIs and it has been always frustrating to 1. Search the API in the documentation or ask ChatGPT 2. Then copy it to the postman and understand/test the API 3. Generate code to integrate into the codebase We thought how about having all of this at one place. We currently fine-tuned LLM on public REST APIs to reduce hallucination and then combined it with ChatGPT and Postman. I look forward to feedback, feature requests and discussions!
2023 · loom.com · its alternatives →
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AI guardrails and governance for production GenAI
Feb 2026 · guardrailx.org · its alternatives →
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