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Prompts
System prompts, user inputs, retrieved context, few-shot examples.
- Prompt injection (direct & indirect)
- Jailbreaks & roleplay attacks
- PII exposure in system prompts
- Prompt leakage via model outputs
Guardra audits your AI agents — prompts, memory, tools, and outputs — and the source code that builds them. Catch prompt injection, leaked secrets, tool abuse, hallucinated APIs, and CVEs before production.
Built for CTOs, AppSec leads & Heads of Platform at AI-native companies
Prompt injection via user-provided doc
agent/support-bot · tool=read_file
API key leaked to agent memory
memory/session-a4e2 · turn #14
Unbounded tool call — send_email to *
tools/email.py:42
Hallucinated API endpoint /v2/orders/wire
agent output · trace #8912
SQL injection in /api/reports/export
pages/api/reports/export.ts:88
Auto-fix ready
194 of 217 fixable · ships as PR
Trusted across regulated industries
4.9/5
G2 · 412 reviews
4.8/5
Gartner Peer Insights · 198 reviews
9.4/10
TrustRadius · 107 reviews
Certified & compliant
Penetration-tested quarterly by external firms
Industry recognition
Gartner
Cool Vendor
AppSec 2025
Forrester
Wave Leader
SAST Q1 2026
G2
Leader
Winter 2026
CSA
Global Leader
DevSecOps 2025
Cyber Defense
Editor's Choice
2025
What we audit
Every AI agent has the same five surfaces an attacker will touch. Guardra audits all five, continuously — and fixes what it finds.
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System prompts, user inputs, retrieved context, few-shot examples.
02
Long-term memory stores, conversation history, RAG vector data.
03
Every function call your agent makes — APIs, filesystems, emails, code exec.
04
Agent responses delivered to users, APIs, or downstream systems.
05
The repos that ship your agent and everything around it.
Try it · no signup
This runs a subset of our detectors in your browser — zero data leaves your device. The full engine runs 12,000+ checks plus LLM-as-judge.
Click Run audit to see live findings.
How to integrate
SDKs for Python and Node. REST & GraphQL. A single-binary CLI. A full dashboard. Pick whichever fits your stack — all four talk to the same engine.
$ pip install guardrainstallfrom guardra import Guardra
g = Guardra(api_key="grd_...")
# Wrap every LLM call — zero code changes to your agent
result = g.audit(
agent="support-bot",
messages=conversation,
tools=tool_calls,
memory=memory_snapshot,
)
if result.critical:
raise g.BlockedByPolicy(result.reason)SDK
Drop-in for Python & Node · async-first · zero dependencies
REST + GraphQL
Signed webhooks · OpenAPI spec · Terraform provider
CLI
Single binary · air-gap friendly · CI/CD gate built-in
Dashboard
Live traces · replay · team RBAC · audit export
Install
Open-source SDKs. Signed releases. Real engineers can read the code before they install it.
$ pip install guardra$ npm install @guardra/sdk$ curl -fsSL https://guardra.ai/install | sh$ go install github.com/guardra/guardra-cli@latestgithub.com/guardra
Open-source SDKs & rule packs
guardra/guardra-py
Official Python SDK
guardra/guardra-js
Official Node / TypeScript SDK
guardra/guardra-cli
Single-binary CLI · air-gap friendly
guardra/detectors
Open rule packs — OWASP LLM Top 10, CWE, MITRE
The cost of doing nothing
The AI era accelerated software delivery by 10x — and shipped vulnerabilities with it. Hard-coded API keys, leaked secrets, LLM-generated insecure code, and supply-chain backdoors are now the #1 driver of enterprise loss.
annual global cybercrime cost by 2025
Source · Cybersecurity Ventures
average cost of a single data breach in 2024 — up 10% YoY
Source · IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024
secrets leaked to public repos in a single year — 39 every minute
Source · GitHub Secret Scanning Report
more security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code vs human-written
Source · Stanford HAI
Recent incidents
2.15M users exposed
A cloud misconfiguration left customer telematics data public for 10 years. Discovered only after external audit.
Proprietary chip source code
Engineers pasted confidential code into ChatGPT three times in 20 days. Banned generative AI company-wide as a result.
2,600+ orgs · 93M records
A single zero-day in file-transfer software cascaded into one of the largest supply-chain breaches on record.
$2.9B recovery cost
Ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary. 100M Americans' health data exposed. Traced to a server missing MFA.
$100B+ estimated damages
Nation-state actors planted malicious code in a trusted build pipeline. 18,000 customers compromised downstream.
All customer secrets rotated
An engineer's laptop was compromised via info-stealer malware, exfiltrating session tokens for the CI platform itself.
The AI Multiplier
AI coding assistants wrote 46% of all code merged in 2024. They hallucinate secrets, suggest deprecated crypto, and reintroduce 5-year-old CVEs at scale. Traditional scanners were not built for this velocity. Guardra was.
Sources · McKinsey State of AI 2024 · GitHub Octoverse · Veracode State of Software Security
The platform
Guardra AI replaces a stack of SAST, SCA, secret scanners, red-team tooling, and compliance spreadsheets — with a single engine that ships real fixes.
Direct + indirect injection detection trained on the largest adversarial prompt corpus in the industry. Catches attacks signature engines miss.
Send us OpenTelemetry traces or LangSmith / LangFuse exports. Guardra replays every span and surfaces the exact step that went wrong.
Least-privilege scopes per tool, per user, per agent. Rate-limit, require human-in-the-loop, or block fan-out actions automatically.
Detects leaked keys and credentials across prompts, memory, logs, commits, and artifacts. Rotates compromised secrets in one click.
SAST + DAST + SCA + IaC across 40+ languages. Extra-sensitive to AI-generated code, which carries 40% more vulnerabilities.
Every finding ships with a production-ready patch, a regression test, and a clean diff. Review as a PR or auto-gate at CI.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and EU AI Act controls mapped automatically. Auditor-ready evidence on demand.
Block unsafe agent deploys and risky PRs at the source. Severity thresholds, owner routing, waiver workflows — all in Git.
OpenAI · Anthropic · LangChain · LangGraph · CrewAI · LlamaIndex · Bedrock · Vertex. GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket. SSO + SCIM.
SBOM generation, dependency confusion detection, LLM-suggested typosquat protection, and signed-build enforcement.
p50 < 40ms inline audits. Full deep scans under 10 minutes. Zero noise — findings ranked by real exploitability, not CVSS.
Scans run in ephemeral isolated enclaves. Your source and traces never persist unless you ask. CMEK / HSM on Premium.
Coverage
Mapped to the industry standards your auditors, regulators, and board already know.
Native detection for every category — AI agents, prompts, tools
100% detection coverage across all 10 categories
Every Most Dangerous Software Weakness covered
Enterprise & Cloud matrices — 213 techniques mapped
40+ first-class parsers · native AST analysis
Updated weekly · request a parser →
The console
Risk in dollars, not CVSS scores. Compliance drift tracked live. Every repo, every commit, every fix — measured, ranked, and ready to show the board.
30d trend · lower is better
Breach cost avoided this quarter
Last 30 days
Mean time to remediation
18 / 100
| Repo | Score | 30d | PRs | Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| acme-platform/api | 94 / 100 | +6 | 23 | 0 |
| acme-platform/web | 88 / 100 | +12 | 17 | 1 |
| acme-platform/mobile | 72 / 100 | -3 | 9 | 2 |
| acme-platform/iac | 96 / 100 | +2 | 4 | 0 |
The methodology
Built by practitioners. Grounded in open standards. Engineered to be boring in production — which is exactly what security infrastructure should be.
Connect
OAuth into GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket / Azure DevOps. Scoped, read-only, SCIM-provisioned. 60 seconds from click to first scan.
Ingest
Guardra streams your source, dependencies, IaC, and commit history into a short-lived enclave. Nothing persists.
Analyze
12,000+ deterministic detectors run first — grounded in CWE/OWASP. Then our security-tuned LLM layer reviews business logic for patterns signature engines miss.
Prioritize
Findings are ranked by real exploitability: reachability analysis, blast-radius scoring, and exposure context. No noise.
Remediate
Each finding ships with a production-ready patch + a regression test. A secondary model adversarially reviews the fix before it's offered to you.
Gate
Policy-as-code blocks risky merges at the source. Severity thresholds, owner routing, waiver workflows — all in Git.
Prove
Every finding, fix, and waiver is logged, signed, and exportable. Auditor-ready evidence packages for SOC 2, ISO, PCI, HIPAA — generated on demand.
Architecture
Designed by engineers from CrowdStrike, Google Project Zero, and NCC Group. Every architectural choice was made to minimize blast radius and cost.
Your agent
SDK · REST · CLI · webhook
Guardra enclave
Queue → workers → LLM-judge
Your dashboard
Findings only · no raw data
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Signed submit
mTLS · per-tenant key · rate-limited
02
Async analyze
12k detectors + judge · OTEL-traced
03
Findings emitted
Raw data discarded · cert of destruction
Deployment
Guardra Cloud (us/eu/apac), inside your VPC, on-prem, or airgapped. FedRAMP Moderate and IL4 environments available.
Ephemeral isolated enclaves
Scans execute in single-tenant, short-lived enclaves inside your cloud region. They terminate and self-destruct within minutes.
Zero source retention
Source code is streamed, analyzed in memory, discarded. Findings — not code — are what persists. BYOK + HSM on Premium.
Signed, reproducible builds
Every Guardra release is signed, SLSA-3 attested, and published to Sigstore. Verify exactly what's running.
Mutually-authenticated runtime
mTLS everywhere, short-lived certs, per-tenant encryption keys. Control-plane access is fully audit-logged.
Backend engineered to scale
Traces and scans enter a Redis-backed queue with at-least-once semantics. Workers are horizontally auto-scaled; bursty traffic never blocks your agents.
Ingest, analysis, LLM-as-judge, and remediation each run on isolated worker pools with their own rate limits and blast-radius controls.
OpenTelemetry traces every span through the pipeline. You see latency, token usage, and detector hits per agent in real time.
Token-bucket limits per API key, per tenant, per detector. Fail-open option keeps your agents running if Guardra is ever degraded.
Budgets per project and per environment. Alerts on spend anomalies. Automatic model routing (cheap → expensive) based on finding severity.
Ecosystem
60+ native integrations. Webhook and REST API for anything we haven't built yet. SCIM provisioning. SSO on every plan.
Source code
CI / CD
Identity & SSO
Ticketing & workflow
Alerting & chat
Cloud & observability
Secrets & vaults
Container & IaC
Need something custom?
Full REST + GraphQL API · signed webhooks · CLI · Terraform provider
Case studies
The numbers below are from production customers. No rounded-up testimonials — just before and after.
Financial Services
2,400 engineers · 1,100 repos
NorthBank was spending $1.8M/yr across Snyk, SonarQube, GitGuardian, and a GRC consultancy — and still missed a leaked Stripe key in a test repo that led to a regulator inquiry. Guardra consolidated all four tools and auto-generated their entire SOC 2 evidence package.
“We shut down our entire appsec tooling committee. Guardra just does the work — and the auditors are happier than they've ever been.”
Tooling cost
Before
$1.8M/yr
After
$310K/yr
Mean time to fix
Before
14 days
After
9 min
False positives
Before
71%
After
4%
Audit prep time
Before
6 weeks
After
2 days
Healthcare
HIPAA · 48M patient records
On day one, Guardra surfaced an AWS root key committed to a legacy research repo in 2019. The key had been rotated on paper — but was still active. CISO estimates the leak prevented a $40M+ HIPAA breach event.
“Four minutes. That's how long it took Guardra to find something four pen-tests and two auditors had missed.”
Exposure prevented
Before
—
After
$40M+
Coverage
Before
37 repos
After
312 repos
Critical findings
Before
unknown
After
18 triaged
Engineer hours saved
Before
—
After
1,200/qtr
AI / Platform
Series C · 400 engineers
Vercore's engineers ship 300+ PRs/day, 46% of which contain AI-generated code. Before Guardra, their security team was a bottleneck. Now, 91% of findings are auto-fixed before a human sees them — and security reviews happen only on the 9% that matter.
“The auto-fix PRs are uncanny. 9 out of 10 merge without a human touching them — and the one that doesn't is usually the one that matters.”
PR merge velocity
Before
+0%
After
+40%
Auto-fixed findings
Before
0%
After
91%
Security team size
Before
stable
After
stable
Vulns to production
Before
~8/wk
After
0.3/wk
Reviews
806 verified reviews across G2, Gartner Peer Insights, TrustRadius, and Capterra.
G2
412 reviews
Leader · Winter 2026
Gartner Peer Insights
198 reviews
Customers' Choice 2025
TrustRadius
107 reviews
Top Rated 2025
Capterra
89 reviews
Best Ease of Use
“We evaluated Snyk, Semgrep, and Guardra head-to-head. Guardra found 3x more genuine vulnerabilities with a fifth of the false positives. The auto-fix feature alone saved my team 20+ hours per week.”
Director of Security, Mid-Market Fintech
“The compliance evidence export is a game-changer. What used to take a six-person team six weeks for SOC 2 prep now takes two days. Our auditor specifically asked who we were using.”
CISO, Healthcare · $2B+ Revenue
“Finally, a security tool engineers don't hate. The PRs are clean, the tests actually work, and the explanations are useful. Our merge velocity went UP after installing a security scanner — first time I've ever seen that.”
VP Engineering, AI Platform
“The MITRE ATT&CK mapping and CWE coverage are the best in the market. I used to maintain our own rule library — deleted it the week we went live with Guardra.”
Staff AppSec Engineer, E-commerce
“Airgapped deployment worked on the first try. FedRAMP readiness posture is clearly documented. Customer-managed encryption keys are first-class, not an afterthought.”
Principal Engineer, Defense Contractor
“Onboarded 312 repositories in 90 minutes. Found a leaked AWS access key from 2019 in the first scan. It paid for itself on day one.”
Head of DevSecOps, SaaS Platform
Guardra Labs
Our in-house research team has disclosed 40+ CVEs to vendors since 2023, authored industry-reference reports, and briefed the US CISA, ENISA, and the UK NCSC.
Recent disclosures
Authentication bypass in popular OAuth library
oauth-toolkit v3.x · 2.1M weekly downloads
Prototype pollution in a Top-50 npm package
(coordinated disclosure) · 410K dependents
Deserialization RCE in a Fortune-500 CI plugin
(coordinated disclosure) · Enterprise CI/CD
LLM prompt-injection → data exfiltration
Commercial AI coding assistant · Industry-wide
4.2M repos analyzed. 12.8M secrets leaked. The data on where modern engineering teams are getting it wrong — and what's working.
Download report (PDF · 48 pp)Our red team ran 1,200 prompts through the top 5 LLM coding assistants. 46% produced code with at least one OWASP Top 10 issue.
Read the briefAI assistants are increasingly suggesting malicious look-alike packages. We identified 347 active typosquats in the npm ecosystem alone.
Read the paperlines scanned / day
findings auto-fixed
time to first report
source code retained
Vs. the legacy stack
Most customers replace 3–5 tools on day one. Here's the honest comparison.
| Capability | Guardra | Snyk | Semgrep | Sonar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static analysis (SAST) | ||||
| Dependency scanning (SCA) | ||||
| Secret scanning (git history) | ||||
| AI-driven auto-fix PRs | ||||
| Business-logic vulnerability detection | ||||
| IaC + container scanning | ||||
| SOC 2 / ISO / PCI evidence export | ||||
| Policy-as-code merge gates | ||||
| Zero source retention option | ||||
| On-prem / airgapped deployment | enterprise | enterprise | ||
| False-positive rate | < 5% | ~30% | ~40% | ~55% |
| Median time to first finding | < 10 min | 1 – 2 hrs | 30 min | 2 hrs |
ROI calculator
Based on IBM's 2024 Cost of Data Breach Report and anonymized data from our customer base. Adjust the inputs for your org.
Assumes Enterprise plan ($1,500/mo), $95/hr loaded engineer cost, 4hrs/wk/engineer spent on manual security work, 82% breach-avoidance probability per IBM 2024.
Estimated annual value
vs. $18,000/yr Guardra Enterprise
Engineer hours reclaimed
6,400 hrs
$608K
Breach cost avoided
2 incidents prevented
$8.0M
Replaced legacy tooling
80 repos covered
$115K
Deployment
Four deployment models. One platform. Same capabilities across all of them.
SaaS · default
Fully managed, multi-region (US, EU, APAC). Zero infrastructure for you to run. Built on SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001-certified foundation.
Hybrid
Guardra runtime deployed inside your AWS / Azure / GCP VPC. Control-plane in Guardra Cloud, data-plane entirely under your IAM.
Premium
Kubernetes-native single-tenant deployment in your datacenter. Customer-managed encryption keys. Air-gapped installer available.
Public sector
FedRAMP Moderate (in process), IL4/IL5 enclave variants, and CJIS-compliant deployments for federal, state, and local government.
Pricing
Every plan includes the full Guardra engine — not a stripped-down scanner. Pick your scale. 14-day pilot on every tier.
For startups putting their first agent into production.
billed monthly · cancel anytime · 14-day pilot
For scaling orgs with real compliance and agent fleets.
billed monthly · cancel anytime · 14-day pilot
For regulated industries & high-volume agent platforms.
billed monthly · cancel anytime · 14-day pilot
All plans: unlimited users · zero source retention · 99.99% uptime SLA on Enterprise & Premium · annual contracts get 2 months free
Built by practitioners
Our team has shipped the tools that defended the banks, clouds, and governments you already trust.
Ramiz Rafiq
Founder & CEO
15 yrs cybersecurity. Led red-team and AppSec programs across financial services and healthcare. Dual CISSP / OSCP.
Dr. Elena Markov
Chief Scientist
Ex-Google Project Zero. PhD in applied cryptography. 60+ published CVEs across browsers, kernels, and cloud runtimes.
Jamal Okafor
VP Engineering
Ex-CrowdStrike principal engineer. Built and scaled detection infrastructure processing 1T events/day.
Sanaya Kapoor
Head of Trust & Compliance
Ex-Big 4 cyber partner. Led SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP programs for four hyper-growth SaaS companies.
Advisory board
As featured in
“Guardra is doing for application security what Stripe did for payments — making the hard part invisible.”
“The first scanner we've tested where auto-fix isn't a gimmick. The PRs are production-quality.”
“In a category crowded with me-too scanners, Guardra stands out for its breadth and its restraint.”
Resources
Research, playbooks, certifications, and live sessions — produced by practitioners, free forever.
Our annual benchmark — drawn from 4.2M repos, 900+ customers, and 12.8M secret exposures. The definitive view on where engineering risk is really moving.
40-page practical framework for governing AI coding assistants. Used by security leaders at 200+ enterprises.
Get the playbookFree, self-paced. 12 modules covering modern AppSec, SAST/DAST/SCA fundamentals, and remediation strategy.
Start learningCISO from NorthBank walks through the exact process. Next session: May 8, 2026 · 10am PT.
Reserve a seatFAQ
Two modes. (1) Inline SDK: wrap your LLM calls — Guardra audits every prompt, tool call, memory write, and output in under 40ms p50. (2) Trace replay: send us OpenTelemetry / LangSmith / LangFuse traces and we replay them through 12k+ detectors plus an LLM-as-judge. Both return OWASP LLM Top 10-mapped findings with production-ready fixes.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral, and any custom provider via our adapter. Native hooks for LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, Vercel AI SDK, Pydantic AI, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. Model- and framework-agnostic at the protocol layer.
p50 under 40ms, p95 under 120ms for inline audits. You can run Guardra synchronously (blocking) or asynchronously (fire-and-forget with later reconciliation). Fail-open mode keeps your agent running if Guardra is ever degraded — we never want to be the reason your product goes down.
Not unless you choose SaaS. Guardra runs in one of four modes: Guardra Cloud (multi-region, ephemeral enclaves), inside your VPC (data-plane stays in your cloud), on-prem, or airgapped. Source and traces are analyzed in memory and discarded — findings, not raw data, are what persist. Premium supports customer-managed keys (BYOK) and HSM.
They scan code. Guardra audits your agent AND your code, prioritizes by real exploitability, and ships the fix. In head-to-head trials we reduce false positives by 80%+ and cut median remediation time from weeks to under 15 minutes.
Every fix runs through a secondary adversarial-review model, is validated against a regression test we also author, and ships with a confidence score. You can require human approval on any severity, path, or repo via policy-as-code. 91% of our customers' fixes merge without human touch; the 9% that don't are the ones that should get reviewed.
Covered. Guardra scans every document entering your RAG index against our adversarial corpus (2M+ labeled examples). We also analyze retrieval outputs at inference time to detect injected instructions smuggled in via docs, emails, PDFs, or scraped web content.
Yes. 14-day pilot on every plan — full features, no credit card. Most teams find their first critical issue within 10 minutes of installing the SDK. For open-source maintainers: Guardra is free forever.
By audits/month, which covers every prompt, tool call, memory write, output eval, or code scan. Plans include generous monthly allowances (100K / 2M / unlimited). Overages are never billed automatically — you'll get alerts at 50%, 75%, 90% and can set hard caps.
Evidence exported on demand. Guardra maps its own controls and your audit findings into SOC 2 CC / ISO 27001 Annex A / PCI-DSS / HIPAA Security Rule / GDPR / EU AI Act Articles 9–15. Your auditor gets a signed, timestamped package — we've had customers close renewals in 48 hours.
Yes, on Premium. Kubernetes-native single-tenant deployment with offline update channel, customer-managed encryption keys, FIPS 140-3 validated crypto, and STIG-hardened reference manifests. FedRAMP Moderate in process; IL4/IL5 enclaves available for federal.
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 / 27017 / 27018, PCI-DSS L1, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR. Penetration-tested quarterly by external firms. Bug bounty via HackerOne. Full security reports and SBOM available at guardra.ai/trust.
Your first deep audit is free. No card required. Connect a repo and Guardra will show you exactly where you're exposed — and fix it.