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      "pricingNotes": "Per 1,000 text units, where a text unit is up to 1,000 characters. Content filters (including prompt attack) $0.15, denied topics $0.15, sensitive information filters $0.10 for PII and free for regex, word filters free, contextual grounding $0.10, Automated Reasoning checks $0.17 per policy. Image content filters $0.00075 an image. Through InvokeGuardrailChecks (launched 2026-06-16), content filters are $0.07, prompt-attack checks $0.08 and sensitive information $0.10 per 1,000 text units. Each policy on a guardrail is billed separately, so a guardrail with four paid policies costs the sum. No free tier for Guardrails on the pricing page (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/).",
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          "ApplyGuardrail works with any model, self-hosted or third party, without invoking Bedrock inference",
          "InvokeGuardrailChecks takes the checks inline and returns severity and confidence scores, so no guardrail resource is needed",
          "IAM can grant bedrock:ApplyGuardrail on one guardrail ARN and nothing else, and calls land in CloudTrail as data events",
          "PII can be masked with placeholders instead of blocking the whole message",
          "The response reports which policy fired and how many text units each one billed"
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          "Per-policy billing, so four paid policies on one request cost four times, and no free tier",
          "Classic tier covers English, French and Spanish only, and Standard tier uses cross-Region inference that can move prompts within a geography",
          "Quota numbers are mostly in the Service Quotas console, with public figures only for two US regions",
          "The Bedrock SLA covers APIs for models and doesn't name Guardrails",
          "No Guardrails change announced since 23 June 2026"
        ],
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          "Call ApplyGuardrail twice, once with source INPUT before the model and once with source OUTPUT after, since the policies that apply differ",
          "Use InvokeGuardrailChecks when you only need content, prompt-attack or PII scores. It needs no guardrail id and runs in detect-only mode",
          "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",
          "Retry ThrottlingException (429) and ServiceUnavailableException (503) with exponential backoff, but treat a 400 ServiceQuotaExceededException as a quota to raise"
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          "measured": false
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        "install": "pip install boto3   # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime",
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          "item": "Contextual grounding checks",
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          "item": "Automated Reasoning checks",
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          "item": "Image content filter",
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        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
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          "Guardrails quotas (requests a second, text units a second per policy) sit in the AWS General Reference and the Service Quotas console rather than the user guide, and the runtime quotas page redirected in a loop when we fetched it."
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          "Covers personal data only. No prompt injection, jailbreak or content moderation checks",
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          "Download a spaCy model (python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg) before the first `AnalyzerEngine()` call, or use the Docker image",
          "Send both text and language to `/analyze`. A request missing either returns HTTP 500 with a JSON error field",
          "Pass entities and score_threshold to limit results. Many country-specific recognisers are disabled by default and need enabling in the registry YAML",
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          "No privacy policy was found on dataprivacystack.org or the docs site. Nothing is hosted, so the field is left out.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-presidio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/microsoft-presidio.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Bedrock Guardrails (BB)\n\nGood for: A team already on AWS that wants one versioned policy covering topics, PII masking, grounding and prompt attacks in front of any model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 69\n- Agent ergonomics, 93 against 69\n- Security \u0026 auth, 94 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Per-policy billing, so four paid policies on one request cost four times, and no free tier\n\n### Presidio (B)\n\nGood for: Detecting and masking personal data in prompts, outputs, logs and images on the owner's own machines, with detection tuned by entity, threshold and custom recognisers.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 63 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The REST containers have no authentication by design. The FAQ says to put a gateway or proxy in front\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Presidio | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 78 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 69 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 69 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +24 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 53 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +41 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Presidio +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 63 | Presidio +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 65 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.8 · BB** | **66 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Presidio |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Data Privacy Stack |\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| Price for guard pii | $0.10 per 1M characters | free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-06-23 | 2026-07-22 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |\n| Popularity | 17M npm/wk | 11k stars, 1.2M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | none |\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**Presidio.** MIT-licensed personal data detector with a public OpenAPI document, tests on Python 3.10 to 3.14 and about 1.2 million weekly PyPI downloads. The REST containers have no authentication, the project states no SLA or support, and it covers personal data only, with no prompt injection or content moderation checks.\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### Presidio\n\n1. Install from PyPI or pull images from ghcr.io/data-privacy-stack. The mcr.microsoft.com/presidio-* images are no longer updated\n2. Download a spaCy model (python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg) before the first `AnalyzerEngine()` call, or use the Docker image\n3. Send both text and language to `/analyze`. A request missing either returns HTTP 500 with a JSON error field\n4. Pass entities and score_threshold to limit results. Many country-specific recognisers are disabled by default and need enabling in the registry YAML\n5. Keep the containers on a private network or behind your own authenticating proxy. 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