Tech riderRev. 21 Sept 2026
Inferwall
- 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Mac, Windows
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Prompt injection defenseYes
- 4PII redactionYes
- 5Secrets detectionYes
- 6Output guardrailsYes
- 7Deployment modelself-hosted
6 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: inferwall.com

Overview
Inferwall is ranked #8 of 28 in LLM security tools on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Windows.
Compared on LLM security tools
- Prompt injection defense
- Yesinferwall.com
- PII redaction
- Yesinferwall.com
- Secrets detection
- Yesinferwall.com
- Output guardrails
- Yesinferwall.com
- Deployment model
- self-hostedinferwall.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Inferwall describes itself as an AI firewall that scans LLM app inputs and outputs against signatures for threats including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and unsafe content.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Detection layers
- It combines heuristic, machine learning, semantic, and configurable LLM judge detection layers.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Inferwall can be deployed as a Python SDK, standalone HTTP server, or transparent reverse proxy.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site lists first party wrappers for OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, and FastAPI.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Additional ecosystem support
- The site lists Ollama, Hugging Face, LlamaIndex, Pydantic, vLLM, and Mistral among supported stack integrations.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Performance
- The site says its Rust heuristic engine runs in under 0.3 ms at p99 and requires no GPU in the Lite profile.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Install profiles
- The site describes Lite as about 8 MB, Standard as including about 730 MB of models, and Full as including those models plus LLM credentials.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Policy controls
- Users can set allow, flag, or block thresholds per route and extend or override signatures under ~/.inferwall/.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Security mapping
- The site says its prompt injection, jailbreak, prompt extraction, and data leakage signatures map to MITRE ATLAS techniques AML.T0051, AML.T0054, AML.T0056, and AML.T0057.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- The engine is licensed under Apache 2.0 and community signatures under CC BY-SA 4.0.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- The site states that no detection system is perfect and presents Inferwall as one layer of a defense in depth strategy.inferwall.com · 5 Oct 2026
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Where it ranks on Specifiction
- Best LLM Security Tools in 2026#8 of 28
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Sources
- inferwall.com· checked 5 Oct 2026


