# AgentGate vs Granite Guardian (slim)

> Granite Guardian scores 60.1 (C) to AgentGate's 48.5 (D) for policy enforcement. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Granite Guardian scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against AgentGate's 48.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do policy enforcement.

- AgentGate: D 48.5, rank #883 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentgate.min.md
- Granite Guardian: C 60.1, rank #563 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.min.md
- AgentGate, good for A team that wants a self-hosted check between an agent and its shell, database or webhook tools, with a human approval queue. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Granite Guardian, good for A team with a GPU that wants one English-language judge for harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call checks and house rules, under a permissive licence with no gate. Ahead on Reliability, 56 against 44; Schema & documentation, 60 against 47; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 53; Security & auth, 58 against 49; Maintenance & community, 47 against 28; Transparency & trust, 70 against 56.

| Category | AgentGate | Granite Guardian |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 44 | 56 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 47 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 47 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AgentGate | Granite Guardian |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |
| Vendor | Mohit Singh (mohitdebian) | IBM |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository |
| Last release | none | 2026-04-29 |
| Popularity | 0 stars | 182 stars |