OpenAI, on Monday, announced its plans to acquire AI security platform Promptfoo for an undisclosed amount. The ChatGPT-parent said that in the future, agentic AI will pick more pace and witness more adoption, hence it wishes to work on tightening the security measures to safeguard this technology and its corporate and retail users.
“We are acquiring Promptfoo,” the official X handle of OpenAI posted on Monday.
The move is essentially aimed at arming up OpenAI Frontier with advanced AI security tools. Launched earlier this year, OpenAI Frontier is being advertised as an enterprise-grade platform to build and manage agentic AI co-workers.
Once the acquisition is complete, OpenAI said, it will be stitching Promptfoo’s technology into its Frontier ecosystem.
According to Srinivas Narayanan, CTO of B2B applications at OpenAI, “Promptfoo brings deep engineering expertise in evaluating, securing, and testing AI systems at enterprise scale. Their work helps businesses deploy secure and reliable AI applications.”
For OpenAI, the deal is expected to help the enterprise clients of its Frontier service identify and resolve AI threats like data leaks, tool misuse, and out-of-policy agent behaviors in time.
“Frontier will deeply integrate with the workflows needed to identify, investigate, and remediate agent risks earlier, making security a core part of how enterprise AI systems are developed and operated,” OpenAI said.
For now, the exact timeline by when this acquisition would be finalized remain unclear.
Promptfoo was founded in 2024 by Ian Webster and Michael D’Angelo. The platform is working with 25 percent of the Fortune 500 companies to assist them with agentic AI security.
“As AI agents become more connected to real data and systems, securing and validating them is more challenging and important than ever,” the platform said commenting on its acquisition by OpenAI. “Joining OpenAI lets us accelerate this work, bringing stronger security, safety, and governance capabilities to the teams building real-world AI systems.”