Something has to see it.
Representative Guard API verdicts, judged before they reach a model.
Illustrative sample of the decisions PromptGuard makes. Not live production traffic.
The attack you would have approved.
A routine support ticket, and the same ticket as the engine reads it. Everything highlighted below is really in the message — open your inspector and check.
The ticket as your support assistant receives it. Nothing about it looks unusual, and nothing inspects it.
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forwarded to the model · unchanged
Sure — here is the full export of the customers table:
The bars are placeholders — there are no records behind this page. What is real is the behaviour: your assistant carried out an instruction written by whoever opened the ticket, and the person reading the queue saw nothing wrong with it.
Without PromptGuard: an apparently routine support message conceals an instruction to return the customer table, the message is forwarded to the model unchanged, and the model complies and returns the export. The rows shown are placeholder bars, not data.
One message is an anecdote. The benchmark behind it is 2,369 adversarial samples, and it is the next thing on this page.
Measured, not asserted.
Real benchmarks against independently published adversarial datasets and our own red-team suites, published with their sources so you can check the work rather than take ours.
Every number on this page names its dataset, its sample count and its confidence interval, including the ones that do not flatter us. Ask for the same from anyone quoting you a detection rate.
- Fast-path latencyDeterministic checks, no network. ML/LLM escalation costs more
- <10 ms
- Benchmark Datasets5 independently published, 3 built in-house
- 8
- Evasion robustness100/100 obfuscated attacks caught, against 80 for a standalone classifier. Our own suite
- 100%
- Uptime targetBuilt for reliability
- 99.9%
Benchmarked on TensorTrust (ICLR 2024), In-the-Wild Jailbreaks (ACM CCS 2024), JailbreakBench (NeurIPS 2024), XSTest (NAACL 2024), deepset/prompt-injections, and internal red-team + evasion suites, 2,369 samples. Read the full methodology → Read the technical whitepaper →
Detection F1 by approach
Higher is better · 2,369 samples · 95% CI [0.874, 0.900]
Evasion robustness
Attacks hidden with base64, homoglyphs, leetspeak & more, caught after normalization
Our own suite: 100 mutations, 10 encoding techniques × 10 attack seeds, generated in-house. Not an independent benchmark.
Both come from the same aggregate row of the same run — 95% CI [98.5%, 99.6%] on precision, [78.2%, 82.3%] on recall. They are a threshold, not a ceiling: the two move against each other as it moves, and this run used the shipped default preset (moderate, ML confidence 0.8) — strict lowers it to 0.6 for more recall; permissive raises it to 0.9 for fewer blocks. The default sits there because a false positive is a blocked request from a real user in production. Move it if your threat model prices that the other way.
Run it in our cloud, in your VPC, or entirely off the network.
The detection engine is the same in all three. What changes is where it runs and what ever leaves your perimeter.
Managed cloud
We run the gateway. You change a base URL.
Fastest path to production. Metadata-only logging by default.
Hybrid self-host
The gateway runs in your infrastructure, on one dashboard.
Helm chart or docker-compose. Prompts never leave your network.
Air-gapped
No outbound connection. At all.
Licences validate offline against a signed key.
- Zero-retention mode
- Prompt and response content is never written to disk. Decisions only.
- Metadata-only logs
- Decision, reason, timestamp. Never the body of a prompt or a completion.
- Retention you set
- From 24 hours up to 30 days, or a custom window on Enterprise.
- Access controls
- SSO via OIDC, role-based access and IP allowlisting.
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- Five of the ten covered in full, five partial, each naming its gap — mapped to detectors in the engine, not to a policy document. See the mapping
- Response integrity
- HMAC-SHA256 signing and content hashing, so a response can be verified as untampered.
- Exportable audit trail
- Every decision is logged with its reason and can be exported as evidence.
- GDPR posture
- Data processing agreements and security documentation for privacy reviews.
PromptGuard is independent. The detection engine is the product, not a feature of a larger platform you have to adopt to keep it — so the roadmap answers to the teams running it in production.
Which options are on which plan is set out on pricing. For a deployment review, talk to us.
Model-agnostic, works with every major provider and framework you already run
How it works
One import, one init call — your existing provider code does not change.
Add one line
Auto-instrumentedDrop the SDK into your app and every OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, and Cohere call is secured, with no changes to your existing code.
Configure security rules
Flexible policiesUse defaults or customize detection rules, PII redaction, and rate limits.
Monitor everything
Full visibilityReal-time dashboard shows threats blocked, requests analyzed, and audit logs. False-positive and false-negative feedback recalibrates detection, so accuracy improves with every correction.
<10 ms on the fast path
Auto-instrument, one line secures every LLM call, no changes to your existing code.
See how the engine scores a prompt.
See exactly what our engine flags and why — and what a policy written in plain English compiles to before it runs.
Nothing you do here leaves your browser. These are real verdicts recorded from PromptGuard's production engine and shipped with this page — there is no live call and no third party involved. To run your own prompts through the engine, use the authenticated playground.
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Data exfiltration blocked
Look-alike letters and zero-width joiners normalized, then a base64 instruction to export the customer table. Blocked before the model was reached.
Frequently askedquestions
Everything you need to know about PromptGuard
That is a separate product on the same platform. The gateway secures the applications you build; Shadow AI covers the tools your staff use directly — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor and the rest — through a browser extension and a macOS/Windows desktop agent that inspects egress from native apps as well as browsers. Secrets are blocked before they leave the device and PII is masked on-device, so the raw value is never transmitted, including to us. Fleet rollout and org policy are available on the Scale and Enterprise plans. How Shadow AI works →
Today PromptGuard offers a zero-retention mode, HMAC-SHA256 response signing and content hashing for verifiable response integrity, detailed audit logs, and a fully self-hostable deployment, plus security documentation and data processing agreements. These help with privacy compliance frameworks like GDPR.
Yes! You can configure which checks to run, set sensitivity levels, customize redaction patterns, and even create custom rules. We provide sensible defaults that work well for most applications, with the flexibility to adapt as needed.
Preview it in shadow mode first. PromptGuard runs a sample of traffic through both your current policy and the candidate and reports every request whose verdict would move — tightened, loosened, or shifted near a decision threshold — with worked examples of each. Applying the change then writes a new numbered version rather than editing the live one: exactly one version is active at a time, and the version it supersedes is kept with the timestamp it was replaced. A change that would loosen your policy is refused unless you acknowledge the loosening explicitly.
One project. A key is issued against a single project, every request made with it is scoped to that project, and a project belongs to exactly one organization. It also only opens the /api/v1 endpoints — the dashboard authenticates with a session token and internal services with a separate credential, so a leaked key cannot read your dashboard or another project's events. Keys can be rotated with a grace window so callers swap over without downtime, or revoked outright; expiry and revocation are both checked on every request.
You can configure PromptGuard to fail-open (pass requests through) or fail-closed (block requests) based on your security requirements. We maintain 99.9% uptime and provide health check endpoints for monitoring.
Secure your AI applicationin production
Get protected in under 2 minutes — swap a base URL, no code change. Every request is judged before it reaches the provider, in our cloud or entirely inside your network.