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garak

garak (Generative AI Red-teaming and Assessment Kit) is an open-source large-language-model vulnerability scanner, described as 'the LLM vulnerability scanner'. The project was started by Leon Derczynski and is now maintained by NVIDIA under the Apache 2.0 license. Written in Python, it is used to automatically and systematically test the security of AI models and applications.

garak probes a model with a set of probes generating various attacks and weaknesses - including jailbreaks, prompt injection, training-data leakage, toxic content generation, hallucination, susceptibility to encoded instructions and more. The model's responses are scored by detectors, and the output is a report of vulnerabilities and robustness metrics. The tool supports many backends (e.g. Hugging Face, OpenAI, local models).

garak is used for AI red teaming, security assessment of models before deployment and tracking progress in attack robustness. It has about 8.7k GitHub stars and is one of the more popular open-source LLM security tools. It is available as a CLI tool and a Python library (pip).

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Released 10 May 2023Updated 6 Aug 2026Global
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Overview

System type
Input
Text
Output
TextStructured dataAnalytical reports

Access & Pricing

PUBLIC
Access channels
CLI
Access via command-line interface.
SDK
Developer library for embedding the AI system in other applications.
Availability scope
Global

Open-source software (Apache 2.0) - publicly available on GitHub and via pip.

Subscription model
Free
Pricing
Updated 6 Aug 2026Official pricing

Open source (Apache 2.0) - free. Costs are your own compute and any API fees of the models being tested.

Capabilities

1 capability
Task Specialization

Ecosystem

Related technologies
Applications
Model evaluation

Security & Enterprise

garak is a (defensive) security tool - it is used to detect LLM vulnerabilities. It runs locally/self-hosted; it generates test attacks, so use in a controlled environment is recommended.

Sources

2 sources
garak - repozytorium GitHub (NVIDIA)
RepositoryFetched: 6 Aug 2026
garak - the LLM vulnerability scanner
Official siteFetched: 6 Aug 2026