CAIN-42 CAIN StudioHow CAIN-42 compares
CAIN-42 vs Lakera / Check Point
Lakera (now part of Check Point) is a well-known AI security platform for prompt attacks, data leakage and agent runtime, with a strong threat-intel corpus and trust center. CAIN-42 approaches the same problem from the execution path.
At a glance
What Lakera / Check Point does well
- Deep, battle-tested prompt-injection and jailbreak detection with a large threat-intel corpus.
- Workforce AI / shadow-AI discovery across apps and browsers.
- A mature Trust Center (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, pentest) as part of Check Point.
- Large enterprise footprint and brand recognition.
What CAIN-42 does differently
- Enforces at the tool-call boundary, before anything runs.
- Orders authorization through a Byzantine quorum (3-of-4), so a single yes is never enough.
- Leaves a per-action signed receipt you can verify offline with a clean-room verifier.
- Self-serve from $19.75/mo; the free tier includes the whole decision path.
- Runs hosted, self-hosted, or air-gapped on your own KMS root of trust.
Capability difference
| Capability | CAIN-42 | Lakera / Check Point |
|---|---|---|
| Blocks the tool call at the boundary | Yes | Partial (input/output & agent guardrails) |
| Byzantine-ordered authorization (quorum cert) | Yes | No |
| Per-action signed receipt, offline-verifiable | Yes | No |
| Prompt-injection / jailbreak screening | Partial (screeners + rules) | Yes (core strength) |
| Self-serve start | Yes | Talk to sales |
| Public entry price | $19.75/mo | Talk to sales |
When to pick which
Pick Lakera/Check Point for workforce AI governance and mature prompt screening. Pick CAIN-42 when the risk is the action an agent takes — you want a quorum-ordered authorization and a receipt you can verify yourself, self-serve and cheap.
Based on each vendor's public homepage/product pages (reviewed 2026-10-14). No affiliation and no claim about their internals. Source: vendor source page, verified 2026-10-14.