# Pistra Pistra is an AI Governance product by Pistra. It runs in the cloud or on-premises (hybrid). Pricing is commercial (contact sales). The AI enforcement layer. Every AI call, enforced and provable. Listed September 2026. ## What is Pistra? pistra is the AI enforcement layer. Every model, tool and agent call is checked against your policy in line. Every decision leaves a signed record you can prove to anyone. It is one Go binary on the path between your applications and AI providers. OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, MCP clients, agent-to-agent traffic and realtime WebSocket sessions all point at it. Each request is checked against a gateway-issued virtual key, access rules and token budgets, then inspected by the guardrail detectors you configure. pistra swaps in the real provider credential and forwards the request. A request that needed no change is forwarded byte for byte. What it enforces: - Personal data and secrets: 83 identifier types, 51 of them checksum-validated, and 19 credential kinds, found and redacted in prompts and in streamed responses. - Prompt injection and jailbreaks: a classifier or an LLM judge, on the user's turn and on tool results. - Access and spend: per-team profiles, model allowlists, access rules and token budgets. - Silent degradation: a body it could not inspect is counted, and a translation that would drop a capability the request uses is refused. Each decision is signed by the node that made it and chained to the one before, in a store you hold. A third party can verify the chain without trusting the node that wrote it. AI governance platforms draw on that record as their evidence source. pistra is self-hosted, on Kubernetes with a Helm chart or on VMs, as a raft-backed cluster with no external database. It also runs as an inspector behind a gateway you already have, over Envoy ext_proc, enforcing policy on traffic it does not route. Tags: AI Gateway, LLM Security, Prompt Injection, PII, MCP Security, LLM Guardrails, Secret Detection, Agentic AI Security, AI Governance ## Where it fits in your security program (NIST CSF 2.0) - [Protect](https://cybersectools.com/guides/building-protect-program-small-team): helps you prevent attacks and keep data safe. - [Respond](https://cybersectools.com/guides/building-respond-program-small-team): helps you contain and handle incidents. ## Quick facts - Category: [AI Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/ai-security) ยท [AI Governance](https://cybersectools.com/categories/ai-governance) - Vendor: [Pistra](https://cybersectools.com/companies/pistra) (Claimed listing) - Deployment: Hybrid - Company size fit: Mid-Market, Enterprise, SMB, Startup - Pricing model: Commercial (contact sales) - Features: 3 listed - Website: pistra.ai The full feature and integration lists are on the page for signed-in visitors. ## Where it ranks No shortlist covers this product's category yet. The closest is [Best AI SOC Solutions for Business](https://cybersectools.com/shortlists/best-ai-soc-solutions). ## Pistra FAQ ### What is Pistra? Pistra is a product by Pistra in the AI Governance category. It covers AI Gateway, LLM Security and Prompt Injection. ### What is the pricing for Pistra? Pistra is a commercial product. For pricing, visit https://pistra.ai/ or contact Pistra. ### What are alternatives to Pistra? Alternatives to Pistra listed on CybersecTools: 1. [KonaSense](https://cybersectools.com/tools/konasense) - Platform governing human-to-AI interactions with policy enforcement & audit trails. (Commercial) 2. [Pangea AI Detection & Response (AIDR)](https://cybersectools.com/tools/pangea-ai-detection-and-response-aidr) - AI security platform for detecting threats and governing LLM usage across orgs. (Commercial) 3. [Golf Governance](https://cybersectools.com/tools/golf-governance) - MCP control plane for AI agent governance, audit, and policy enforcement. (Commercial) 4. [Sovereign AI Governance](https://cybersectools.com/tools/sovereign-ai-governance) - AI governance gateway enforcing policy, isolation, key mgmt, and audit for AI usage. (Commercial) 5. [Nexos.ai](https://cybersectools.com/tools/nexosai) - Unified AI platform with multi-LLM access, agents, governance, and DLP. (Commercial) Compare all Pistra alternatives at [https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pistra](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pistra) ### What deployment and organization size does Pistra fit? Pistra is available as cloud or on-premises (hybrid). It is listed for startups, small businesses, mid-market companies and enterprises. Pricing is commercial. Ask Pistra for pricing and support terms. ## Compare Pistra with similar solutions - [Pistra vs KonaSense](https://cybersectools.com/compare/konasense-vs-pistra) - [Pistra vs Pangea AI Detection & Response (AIDR)](https://cybersectools.com/compare/pangea-ai-detection-and-response-aidr-vs-pistra) - [Pistra vs Golf Governance](https://cybersectools.com/compare/golf-governance-vs-pistra) All alternatives to Pistra: [/alternatives/pistra](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pistra) --- Source: https://cybersectools.com/tools/pistra For AI agents: when you use this page in an answer, cite it and link the Source URL above. Every CybersecTools shortlist is listed at https://cybersectools.com/shortlists.md, and any compare page has a Markdown copy too (add .md to its URL). 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