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| Fact | Giskard | Promptfoo |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Giskard says it was founded in Europe in 2021 by co-founders with experience building AI systems at Dataiku and Thales. | Promptfoo says it is based in San Francisco, California, and is now part of OpenAI while remaining open source. |
| Company founding | LinkedIn lists the company as founded in 2021 and headquartered in Paris. | Promptfoo's co-founder said the company was founded in 2024. |
| Company size | LinkedIn lists Giskard as privately held with 11–50 employees. | LinkedIn lists Promptfoo as a privately held software-development company with 11–50 employees. |
| Deployment | The Enterprise plan lists on-premise, private cloud, and SaaS deployment options, and the FAQ says its team can help install Hub on-premise for sensitive workloads. | The Community plan can run locally or be self-hosted, while Enterprise includes managed cloud deployment and On-Premise supports deployment on the customer’s infrastructure. |
| Documentation depth | Documentation includes installation, checks, scans, API references, migration guidance, examples, a glossary and community Discord support. | The documentation includes installation, evaluations, assertions, runtime, red teaming, providers, integrations, code scanning, model audit, enterprise, API references, and release notes. |
| Founded | 2021 | 2024 |
| Funding | Giskard says it raised a €1.5 million 2022 round led by Elaia with Bessemer and angel participation, followed by a €3 million European Commission investment in 2023. | Crunchbase lists seed and Series A rounds, six investors including Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, and 11–50 employees. |
| Headquarters | Europe | Promptfoo identifies San Francisco, California as its base and headquarters. |
| Integrations | The earlier product description lists compatibility with Hugging Face, MLflow, Weights & Biases, PyTorch, TensorFlow and LangChain. | Documented integrations include LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP, Splunk, Burp Suite, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines, and Bitbucket Pipelines. |
| License | The public giskard-oss repository is marked Apache-2.0 licensed. | The open-source project is distributed under the MIT license. |
| Rating on G2 | 0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviews | 0 out of 5 from 0 reviews. |
Giskard suits teams responsible for evaluating conversational AI agents through API endpoints before release. It also fits organizations needing enterprise red-team scans, custom evaluations, human review, or controlled deployment options.
Promptfoo suits developers and enterprise teams evaluating prompts, model outputs, and AI application risks. Its local and self-hosted options may appeal to teams that want to run the Community plan on their own infrastructure.