TapPass vs Lakera.
Lakera is a prompt injection detection API. TapPass is a full-stack AI agent governance platform. Here's when you need more than injection scanning.
TapPass vs Lakera
| Capability | TapPass | Lakera |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt injection detection | ✓ Multi-layer (direct + indirect + tool) | ✓ Lakera Guard API |
| PII detection & redaction | ✓ Comprehensive, with tokenisation and restoration | ◐ Basic PII detection |
| Secret & credential scanning | ✓ Integrated in pipeline | ✗ Not available |
| Data classification | ✓ Multi-level with LLM-assisted classification | ✗ Not available |
| Tamper-evident audit trail | ✓ Cryptographically chained | ✗ Not available |
| Tool / function call governance | ✓ Permissions, scanning, zones | ✗ Not available |
| Human approval gates | ✓ Real-time approve / deny | ✗ Not available |
| Behavioural drift detection | ✓ Statistical anomaly detection | ✗ Not available |
| Cost tracking & budgets | ✓ Per-agent enforcement | ✗ Not available |
| EU AI Act compliance tooling | ✓ Art. 9, 12, 13, 14 | ✗ Not available |
| Self-hosted deployment | ✓ Docker + Helm | ✗ Cloud-only |
| EU-headquartered | ✓ Belgium 🇧🇪 | ✓ Switzerland 🇨🇭 |
Detection API vs. governance control plane
Lakera: detection layer
Lakera provides a prompt injection detection API. You call their endpoint, they return a risk score. You build the blocking, the audit trail, and the compliance layer yourself.
TapPass: governance layer
TapPass sits between your agents and the LLM. Every call flows through a comprehensive governance pipeline: PII scanning, injection defence, classification, tool governance, and audit logging happen automatically.
Compliance gap
With Lakera, you still need audit trails, PII scanning, data classification, and EU AI Act documentation. With TapPass, it's all included.
Need more than injection detection?
This comparison is about scope, not quality. Detection tools do detection well. TapPass is the layer that decides what an agent may do, holds the calls that need a person, and leaves a record you can hand to an auditor. If you already run Lakera, TapPass sits in front of it rather than replacing it.