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          "InvokeGuardrailChecks takes the checks inline and returns severity and confidence scores, so no guardrail resource is needed",
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          "PII can be masked with placeholders instead of blocking the whole message",
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          "Classic tier covers English, French and Spanish only, and Standard tier uses cross-Region inference that can move prompts within a geography",
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          "Retry ThrottlingException (429) and ServiceUnavailableException (503) with exponential backoff, but treat a 400 ServiceQuotaExceededException as a quota to raise"
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          "Jailbreaking, PII, health, financial and legal-advice categories as well as harm classes",
          "Chat endpoint judges the last turn with the conversation as context, with a 128k-token window",
          "OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Python, TypeScript and curl examples",
          "Custom per-category thresholds and block_on_error when used as a guardrail on Mistral conversations and agents"
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          "Supported languages aren't listed",
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          "Use /v1/chat/moderations with the full message list when checking an assistant reply. The raw endpoint has no context",
          "Read category_scores and set your own threshold per category. The booleans use Mistral's cut-offs",
          "Pin mistral-moderation-2603. The 2411 model was retired on 31 March 2026",
          "Move to a paid workspace or zero retention if the text you screen shouldn't train models",
          "For a Mistral-hosted agent, set the moderation_llm_v2 guardrail with block_on_error true and skip the separate call"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-moderation.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for reliability (+40), schema \u0026 documentation (+7), agent ergonomics (+18), security \u0026 auth (+40), maintenance \u0026 community (+12).\n\nPick Mistral Moderation API for payments \u0026 pricing (+20), transparency \u0026 trust (+13).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Mistral Moderation API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 40 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 85 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 75 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 54 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +40 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Mistral Moderation API +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 33 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 83 | Mistral Moderation API +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.1 · BB** | **58.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Mistral Moderation API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Mistral AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bedrock-runtime.{region}.amazonaws.com/guardrail/{id}/version/{version}/apply` | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\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 | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-06-23 | 2026-03-01 |\n| Popularity | 17M npm/wk | 769 stars, 8.4M npm/wk, 3.7M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | 3/5 (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**Mistral Moderation API.** Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, and the Experiment plan needs no card. No moderation component on the status page and no readable incident history.\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### Mistral Moderation API\n\n1. Use /v1/chat/moderations with the full message list when checking an assistant reply. The raw endpoint has no context\n2. Read category_scores and set your own threshold per category. The booleans use Mistral's cut-offs\n3. Pin mistral-moderation-2603. The 2411 model was retired on 31 March 2026\n4. Move to a paid workspace or zero retention if the text you screen shouldn't train models\n5. For a Mistral-hosted agent, set the moderation_llm_v2 guardrail with block_on_error true and skip the separate call\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails or Mistral Moderation API\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 Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-guardrails-ai.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- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Mistral Moderation API vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-nemo-guardrails.md)\n- [Mistral Moderation API vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n",
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