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Openlayer Guardrails
What it 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, sensitive data exposure such as PII and PHI, and harmful or toxic content. When a policy is violated, the system can block or redact content, escalate the issue, or route it for review. Openlayer says it detects and blocks more than 50 PII and PHI entity types inline. Organizations can customize policies, including which sensitive-data categories to block and which topics an assistant should avoid. Guardrails are commonly applied through the Gateway and can also be used 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, white-glove onboarding, and advanced support.
For and against
For
- Targets prompt injection and jailbreaks.
- Detects and blocks over 50 PII and PHI entity types.
- Policy violations can be blocked or routed for review.
- Supports Gateway and SDK enforcement.
- Basic plan includes 20,000 inferences per month.
Against
- Basic is limited to one member and five projects.
- Basic data retention is three months.
- Enterprise pricing is custom.
- On-premise deployment is listed for Enterprise.
The verdict
Openlayer Guardrails offers configurable inline policy enforcement and records decision evidence. The free Basic plan has specific member, project, inference, and retention limits; Enterprise pricing is custom.
Who it suits
It suits engineering, AI, security, compliance, and finance teams that need to enforce policies on live AI traffic. The product is also aimed at regulated industries.
Plans and prices
Basic
1 member · 5 projects · 1 inference pipeline per project · 20,000 inferences per month
Read 30 Sep 2026 · openlayer.com
Enterprise
Unlimited members and projects · Custom inference volume · On-premise deployment · SAML SSO
Read 30 Sep 2026 · openlayer.com
On the record
- Audit evidence
- Each policy evaluation, enforcement action, exception, and outcome can be recorded with a timestamp, system version, owner, and supporting trace.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Openlayer supports deployment in a customer's own VPC and air-gapped deployments; on-premise deployment is available on Enterprise.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Integration methods
- Guardrails are commonly enforced through the Gateway and can also be applied directly through the SDK.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Openlayer says engineering, AI, security, compliance, and finance teams use the platform, and identifies regulated industries as a focus.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Latency
- Guardrails run inline and are designed to add minimal latency in production.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Policy actions
- Policy violations can be blocked, redacted, escalated, or routed for review, with each decision recorded as evidence.openlayer.com · read 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.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Runtime enforcement
- Guardrails inspect live AI inputs and outputs and block unsafe behavior before it reaches a model or user.openlayer.com · read 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.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Sensitive data detection
- The product page says it detects and blocks inline more than 50 PII and PHI entity types.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Basic includes community support through Discord, while Enterprise includes white-glove onboarding and direct Slack access to the Openlayer team.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Threat coverage
- Guardrails target prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure including PII and PHI, and harmful or toxic content.openlayer.com · read 30 Sep 2026
