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          "Set outputScope FULL when you want assessments for content that passed, not only for interventions",
          "Budget in text units of 1,000 characters per policy. A 5,000-character tool result is five units on every paid policy",
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          "Validators are plain PyPI packages, from PII and toxicity to schema and competitor checks",
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          "Import validators from guardrails_ai.\u003cname\u003e, not guardrails.hub, and don't run guardrails hub install",
          "Pass use_local=True to detect_pii, toxic_language and the other model-backed validators, or set validation_endpoint to a server you run",
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          "The terms of use (last updated 2025-08-14) name Guardrails AI, Inc. and predate the Harvey acquisition. The site banner reads Guardrails AI joins Harvey.",
          "The advisory names Snowglobe, a sister product whose keys were rotated after the May 2026 incident."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guardrails-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/guardrails-ai.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for reliability (+22), schema \u0026 documentation (+33), agent ergonomics (+30), security \u0026 auth (+50), transparency \u0026 trust (+9).\n\nPick Guardrails AI for payments \u0026 pricing (+40).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Guardrails AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 58 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 59 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 63 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +30 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 44 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +50 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Guardrails AI +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 44 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 61 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.1 · BB** | **49.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Guardrails AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Guardrails AI (Harvey) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bedrock-runtime.{region}.amazonaws.com/guardrail/{id}/version/{version}/apply` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-06-23 | 2026-08-14 |\n| Popularity | 17M npm/wk | 7.3k stars, 81 npm/wk, 32k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.** ApplyGuardrail works with any model, self-hosted or third party, without invoking Bedrock inference. Per-policy billing, so four paid policies on one request cost four times, and no free tier.\n\n**Guardrails AI.** Validators have configurable actions for failed checks. Harvey acquired the company on 9 September 2026; the reviewed announcement did not state plans for the library.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Bedrock Guardrails\n\n1. Call ApplyGuardrail twice, once with source INPUT before the model and once with source OUTPUT after, since the policies that apply differ\n2. Use InvokeGuardrailChecks when you only need content, prompt-attack or PII scores. It needs no guardrail id and runs in detect-only mode\n3. Set outputScope FULL when you want assessments for content that passed, not only for interventions\n4. Budget in text units of 1,000 characters per policy. A 5,000-character tool result is five units on every paid policy\n5. Retry ThrottlingException (429) and ServiceUnavailableException (503) with exponential backoff, but treat a 400 ServiceQuotaExceededException as a quota to raise\n\n### Guardrails AI\n\n1. Pin guardrails-ai==0.11.0 and each guardrails-ai-\u003cvalidator\u003e package, install only from PyPI, and never install 0.10.1\n2. Import validators from guardrails_ai.\u003cname\u003e, not guardrails.hub, and don't run guardrails hub install\n3. Pass use_local=True to detect_pii, toxic_language and the other model-backed validators, or set validation_endpoint to a server you run\n4. Set enable_metrics to false in ~/.guardrailsrc if you don't want usage metrics sent\n5. Avoid building on reask and RAIL. The open 1.0.0 issues plan to remove both\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails or Guardrails AI\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-azure-ai-content-safety.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-google-model-armor.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-nemo-guardrails.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-nemo-guardrails.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n",
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