# AgentGate vs OpenAI Guardrails (slim)

> OpenAI Guardrails scores 69.5 (B) to AgentGate's 48.5 (D) for policy enforcement. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenAI Guardrails scores 69.5 (B) 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
- OpenAI Guardrails: B 69.5, rank #194 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-guardrails.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 No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- OpenAI Guardrails, good for Teams already on the OpenAI client or Agents SDK that want several checks from one config file with little code. Ahead on Reliability, 73 against 44; Schema & documentation, 66 against 47; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 53; Security & auth, 59 against 49; Maintenance & community, 89 against 28; Transparency & trust, 76 against 56.

| Category | AgentGate | OpenAI Guardrails |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 44 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 47 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AgentGate | OpenAI Guardrails |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Mohit Singh (mohitdebian) | OpenAI |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-10 |
| Popularity | 0 stars | 259 stars, 19k npm/wk, 105k PyPI/wk |