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Prediction Guard

Self-hosted AI control plane that lets regulated enterprises govern models, agents, and MCP servers behind their firewall.

Enterprise· Contact salesAgentsMulti-model6.6 / 10
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Pick Prediction Guard if you're a regulated enterprise that needs to ship LLM agents on-prem with policy controls and a compliance paper trail.

Skip if

Skip it if you're an individual developer or startup that's happy calling hosted OpenAI/Anthropic APIs directly.

Prediction Guard is an enterprise AI control plane aimed at regulated industries that need to deploy LLMs and agents without sending data to third-party APIs. It bundles a policy engine, model gateway, and agent builder into a single self-hostable stack that can run on-premises, air-gapped, or in your own cloud, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints so existing code keeps working.

The pitch is governance first: instead of acting as a thin proxy, Prediction Guard embeds policy enforcement, secret/PII filtering, and AI bill-of-materials generation aligned with NIST and OWASP frameworks. It targets platform and AI engineering teams at banks, healthcare, government, and software vendors who can't ship customer data to OpenAI or Anthropic. Pricing isn't published; this is firmly a sales-led enterprise product with no public free tier.

It integrates with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and self-hosted open-weights models, and exposes both a no-code agent builder and SDK-style APIs. The trade-off is that the public marketing leans heavy on framework acronyms (BOMs, NIST, OWASP) and light on concrete technical depth, so evaluation requires a sales call.

Editor's take

Prediction Guard is a credible entry in the crowded 'AI governance gateway' space, leaning hard into the on-prem and compliance angle that AWS Bedrock Guardrails and Portkey leave half-covered. The product looks real and the integration story is sensible, but the marketing site buries the technical specifics behind sales-speak, so expect a demo call before you can really evaluate it.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team

Pros

  • ✅ Self-hosted and air-gap capable for regulated workloads
  • ✅ OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs ease migration
  • ✅ Built-in policy enforcement and AI BOM generation
  • ✅ Works with Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and open-weights models

Cons

  • ⚠️ No public pricing; enterprise sales motion only
  • ⚠️ Not open source
  • ⚠️ Marketing-heavy site light on technical depth
  • ⚠️ Overkill for hobbyists or small teams

Use cases

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