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Lakera

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Lakera.

Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference

model lab2 model listings0 token-price rows

Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
European non-EU headquarters
Headquarters record
Zurich (with San Francisco)
Legal entity
AG
Ownership
subsidiary of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) — acquisition announced Sep 2025, expected to close Q4 2025, reported at ~$300M
Founded
2021
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Open interactive profile

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.

Model listings

  1. Lakera Guard detection models (prompt-injection, jailbreak, PII and content classifiers)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    small purpose-trained classifiers
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual
    Licence
    proprietary
    Release
    2023–2026
  2. Lakera Red (automated red-teaming for LLMs and agents)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual
    Licence
    proprietary
    Release
    2024

Profile note

Zurich AI-security lab that trains its own guardrail classifiers, uniquely bootstrapped from Gandalf, a public prompt-injection game that harvested tens of millions of real adversarial prompts. Acquired by Check Point in late 2025 for a reported ~$300M and made the foundation of Check Point's Global Centre of Excellence for AI Security in Zurich — so the Zurich engineering base stays, but ownership left Europe.

Record sources

  1. https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-e…
  2. https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-to-acquire-ai-security-firm-lakera/
  3. https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-create-ai-security-centre-in-zurich
  4. https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/check-point-to-acquire-lakera
  5. https://api.lakera.ai/