Openlayer Guardrails inspects live AI inputs and outputs to enforce policies before unsafe behavior reaches a model or user. Its targets include prompt injection, jailbreaks, exposure of sensitive data such as PII and PHI, and harmful or toxic content. For policy violations, it can block or redact content, escalate it, or send it for review; decisions can be recorded as evidence. Openlayer says it detects and blocks more than 50 PII and PHI entity types inline. Organizations can configure categories of sensitive data to block and topics an assistant should avoid. Guardrails are commonly applied through the Gateway and can also be used directly through the SDK. Evaluations, enforcement actions, exceptions, and outcomes can be logged with timestamps, system versions, owners, and supporting traces. The Basic plan costs 0.00 USD per free and includes one member, five projects, one inference pipeline per project, 20,000 inferences per month, 20 tests per project, three months of data retention, and community support. Enterprise pricing is custom and lists on-premise deployment.
Who it is for
It suits engineering, AI, security, compliance, and finance teams that need configurable runtime policies for AI systems. Its stated focus on regulated industries and support for deployment in a customer's own VPC may be relevant to organizations with those requirements.
What is good
- Targets prompt injection, jailbreaks, PII, and PHI exposure.
- Detects and blocks more than 50 PII and PHI entity types.
- Policies can block, redact, escalate, or route for review.
- Supports Gateway and SDK enforcement.
- Basic plan includes 20,000 inferences per month.
What to know first
- Basic is limited to one member and five projects.
- Basic retention is three months.
- Enterprise pricing is custom and not listed.
- On-premise deployment is listed for Enterprise.
Verdict
Openlayer Guardrails combines configurable runtime controls with records of policy evaluations and outcomes. The free Basic plan has defined member, project, inference, test, and retention limits, while on-premise deployment is listed for Enterprise.
Openlayer Guardrails plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI guardrail software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Deployment
- hybrid
- Prompt injection defense
- Yes
- PII detection
- Yes
- Jailbreak detection
- Yes
- Custom policies
- Yes
- SDK languages
- Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
