Lakera Guard / Lakera Red alternatives

Acquired by Check Point Software (completed by 2025-11-11); being folded into Check Point's AI security platform. Screens every prompt, response, and retrieved document for indirect prompt injection — primary vector for memory poisoning. Full Lakera Guard / Lakera Red record →

  1. 1 Memanto (Moorcheh) Dedicated memory layers

    same storage (proprietary) · same retrieval (injection) · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 2.3k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  2. 2 Enkrypt AI Memory governance, privacy & safety ⚠ acquired — acquired by Anaconda

    also in Memory governance, privacy & safety · same retrieval (injection) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  3. 3 Cursor Memories Coding-agent memory

    same storage (proprietary) · same retrieval (injection)

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ proprietary Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  4. 4 Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Memory Platform-provider memory

    same storage (proprietary) · same retrieval (injection)

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ proprietary Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  5. 5 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    same retrieval (injection) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  6. 6 claude-mem Claude Code memory mechanisms

    same retrieval (injection) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 104k released 2026-10-20 Apache-2.0 Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  7. 7 Mem0 Security / OpenMemory Memory governance, privacy & safety

    also in Memory governance, privacy & safety · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 67k released 2026-09-25 Apache-2.0 Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

  8. 8 Botpress LLMz Framework-embedded memory

    same retrieval (injection) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 15k MIT (SDK/integration packages in… Compare with Lakera Guard / Lakera Red →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.