Openlayer Guardrails
Openlayer Guardrails inspects live AI inputs and outputs to enforce policies before unsafe behavior reaches a model or user.
What Openlayer Guardrails is
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 route it for review; each decision can be recorded as evidence. Openlayer says the product detects and blocks more than 50 PII and PHI entity types inline. Organizations can configure sensitive-data categories 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 recorded with timestamps, system versions, owners, and supporting traces. The Basic plan costs nothing 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.
Good
- Targets prompt injection, jailbreaks, and sensitive-data exposure.
- Can block, redact, escalate, or route violations for review.
- Detects and blocks more than 50 PII and PHI entity types.
- Supports Gateway and SDK enforcement.
- Basic plan includes 20,000 monthly inferences.
Watch out
- Basic plan is limited to one member.
- Basic plan allows five projects.
- Basic plan retains data for three months.
- On-premise deployment is listed for Enterprise.
Who it suits
Openlayer Guardrails suits engineering, AI, security, compliance, and finance teams that need live policies for AI systems, particularly in regulated industries. It offers Gateway and SDK integration paths.
Verdict
Openlayer Guardrails combines configurable runtime policies with recorded enforcement decisions. Review the Basic plan's member, project, inference, and retention limits, or note that Enterprise pricing is custom.
Plans and prices
From Openlayer Guardrails's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | 1 member · 5 projects · 1 inference pipeline per project · 20,000 inferences per month · 20 tests per project · 3 months data retention · Community support · Free to start |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Unlimited members and projects · Custom inference volume · On-premise deployment · SAML SSO · 99.99% SLA · White-glove onboarding · Advanced support · Custom |
The facts
Each one read from Openlayer Guardrails's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audit evidence
- Each policy evaluation, enforcement action, exception, and outcome can be recorded with a timestamp, system version, owner, and supporting trace.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Openlayer supports deployment in a customer's own VPC and air-gapped deployments; on-premise deployment is available on Enterprise.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integration methods
- Guardrails are commonly enforced through the Gateway and can also be applied directly through the SDK.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Openlayer says engineering, AI, security, compliance, and finance teams use the platform, and identifies regulated industries as a focus.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Latency
- Guardrails run inline and are designed to add minimal latency in production.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Policy actions
- Policy violations can be blocked, redacted, escalated, or routed for review, with each decision recorded as evidence.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Policy configuration
- Guardrail policies can be customized for an organization's rules, including sensitive-data categories to block and topics an assistant should avoid.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Runtime enforcement
- Guardrails inspect live AI inputs and outputs and block unsafe behavior before it reaches a model or user.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- Openlayer lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA, and says data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Sensitive data detection
- The product page says it detects and blocks inline more than 50 PII and PHI entity types.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Basic includes community support through Discord, while Enterprise includes white-glove onboarding and direct Slack access to the Openlayer team.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Threat coverage
- Guardrails target prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure including PII and PHI, and harmful or toxic content.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2021checked 28 Sep 2026
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