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          "2025-11-09, disclosed by OpenAI after notice on 2025-11-25. A breach at Mixpanel, OpenAI's analytics vendor, exposed names, email addresses, coarse location, browser data and organisation and user IDs of platform.openai.com users. No API keys, API requests or usage data were exposed, and OpenAI removed Mixpanel. Fixed and documented, so a small, decayed deduction, the same as other OpenAI API listings in this run (-2). https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident/"
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          "Add a moderation object to a Responses call instead of a second request when you only need scores on the generation",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-moderation.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for reliability (+15), agent ergonomics (+8).\n\nPick OpenAI Moderation API for payments \u0026 pricing (+10), transparency \u0026 trust (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | OpenAI Moderation API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 65 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 92 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 85 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 92 | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | OpenAI Moderation API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 47 | OpenAI Moderation API +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 90 | OpenAI Moderation API +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.1 · BB** | **71.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | OpenAI Moderation API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bedrock-runtime.{region}.amazonaws.com/guardrail/{id}/version/{version}/apply` | `https://api.openai.com/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 | 2026-06-04 |\n| Popularity | 17M npm/wk | 31k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | 4/5 (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**OpenAI Moderation API.** Free, on any OpenAI project key. No prompt-injection, jailbreak or PII detection.\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### OpenAI Moderation API\n\n1. Read category_scores rather than flagged alone. The default thresholds are OpenAI's\n2. Pin omni-moderation-2024-09-26 if the scores feed a decision you audit. The latest alias will move\n3. Send an array of inputs in one call and match results by index to stay under the per-minute limit\n4. Add a moderation object to a Responses call instead of a second request when you only need scores on the generation\n5. Pair it with a separate injection detector. A clean result says nothing about a hidden instruction in a tool result\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails or OpenAI 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 Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Guardrails AI vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Mistral Moderation API vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemo-guardrails-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n",
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