Augustus vs Giskard

Augustus is a free, self-hosted Go scanner for security professionals assessing large language models. It runs adversarial probes and produces vulnerability reports, with more than 210 probes across 47 attack categories, including jailbreaks, prompt injection, data extraction, safety benchmarks, and agent attacks. It supports 28 provider categories and 43 generator variants, including hosted providers, Ollama, and custom REST endpoints. More than 90 detectors cover approaches such as pattern matching, LLM-as-a-judge, HarmJudge, Perspective API, and unsafe-content detection; seven prompt transformations include encoding, paraphrase, poetry, low-resource-language translation, and case changes. Results can be written as tables, JSON, JSONL, or HTML. The project lists concurrent scanning, rate limits, retries, and timeout handling. Augustus compiles to a portable single binary and can be installed with Go or built from source; the README requires Go 1.27.0 or later. It is Apache 2.0 licensed. The project is intended for authorized security testing, and users are told to test only systems they own or have permission to assess. Provider API use may require credentials.

Giskard provides tools for assessing AI agents before production, with coverage for prompt injection, data disclosure, inappropriate content, hallucinations, contradictions, and omissions. Its Hub performs black-box testing of conversational text-to-text agents available through an API endpoint. An assessment produces a structured report with a deploy-or-fix verdict, ranked vulnerabilities, and functional scenarios; passing agents receive a Giskard Label. Giskard describes a remediation process in which its team qualifies findings, discusses severity, prioritizes issues, opens workflow tickets, and reruns tests to check fixes. Enterprise evaluation options include adversarial probes, domain-specific datasets, RAG quality metrics, customizable metrics, and human review interfaces. Deployment choices include on-premise, private cloud, and SaaS. Giskard lists EU or US data residency, access controls, audit trails, identity-provider integration, encryption, and a zero-training policy, alongside GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA compliance. The free plan includes a local open-source library, basic vulnerability scanning and RAG evaluation, community support, and best-effort maintenance.