{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields)", "vendor": "Microsoft Azure", "vendorUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-content-safety", "kind": "http-api", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "Microsoft's API for analysing harmful text and images, detecting prompt injection and checking groundedness.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-ai-content-safety", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/contentsafety", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "azure-ai-contentsafety" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@azure-rest/ai-content-safety" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` header with a Content Safety resource key, or a Microsoft Entra ID bearer token with the `https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default` scope. Endpoints are per resource, so the hostname is yours, and the resource must sit in a region that has the feature you're calling.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "F0 is free with 5,000 text records and 5,000 images a month at 5 requests a second. S0 in East US is $0.375 per 1,000 text records and $0.75 per 1,000 images at 1,000 requests per 10 seconds. A text record is up to 1,000 Unicode code points, and longer inputs count as several. Commitment tiers of 1M text records a month cost $338 (Azure-hosted) or $321 (connected container), with overage at $0.338 and $0.321 per 1,000. The pricing page loads the numbers with JavaScript and now files the product under Foundry Control Plane (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/content-safety/, https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?%24filter=contains(productName,'Content%20Safety')%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20'eastus').", "priceSummary": "$338 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 16984, "pypiWeekly": 218426, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-safety/overview", "openapi": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/ContentSafety", "capabilities": [ "guard.injection", "guard.moderation", "guard.policy" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "openapi", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 449, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 15, "reliability": 55, "schema": 69, "security": 74, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Prompt Shields checks up to five retrieved documents for indirect injection, not only the user prompt. Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, before the first call.", "bestFor": "An agent on Azure that retrieves documents and needs indirect-injection checks next to harm-category moderation.", "strengths": [ "Prompt Shields checks up to five retrieved documents for indirect injection, not only the user prompt", "5,000 free text records and 5,000 free images a month on F0", "FAQ and data-privacy page agree that inputs aren't stored or trained on and stay in the resource's region", "Entra ID with RBAC as well as rotatable resource keys", "Public OpenAPI documents with error schemas and examples for all 15 operations" ], "weaknesses": [ "Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, before the first call", "Python SDK is 1.0.0 from December 2023 and has no Prompt Shields method", "No retry or 429 guidance in the Content Safety docs", "What's New hasn't been updated since November 2025, while 2026 preview API versions appeared in the spec repository", "10,000 characters per request, documents included, so long tool results have to be chunked" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send retrieved pages and tool results in the documents array of shieldPrompt, not in userPrompt, so document attacks are reported separately", "Call text:shieldPrompt over REST with api-version=2024-09-01. The Python SDK 1.0.0 has no method for it", "Keep each request under 10,000 characters across prompt and documents, and split long tool results", "Create the resource in a region that lists Prompt Shields, since not every region has it", "On F0 you get 5 requests a second. 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The docs still call it Azure AI Content Safety.", "Prices come from the Azure Retail Prices API for East US, since the pricing page renders them client-side." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.json", "live": { "slug": "azure-ai-content-safety", "probe": { "target": "https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:16.88981774Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2101, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 117, "ok": 0 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:38.344735712Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Azure/azure-sdk-for-python", "version": "azure-monitor-opentelemetry_1.8.11", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:00:53.22590324Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@azure-rest/ai-content-safety", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:00:50.623645201Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "azure-ai-contentsafety", "version": "1.0.0", "released": "2023-12-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:00:46.644626437Z" } ], "githubStars": 5614, "npmWeekly": 17963, "pypiWeekly": 217960, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:08.216544687Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "microsoft.com", "registered": "1991-05-02", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/microsoft.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:13.488857536Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-safety/whats-new", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:24.54700219Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ae3aca7b12a8" }, { "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/content-safety/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:29.547589587Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:02:45.227150636Z", "fingerprint": "af16c884016a" }, { "url": "https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?%24filter=contains(productName", "kind": "pricing", "status": 400, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:24.722154947Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:22.20523451Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:22.20523451Z", "fingerprint": "525876b25aa5" }, { "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 502, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:13.370893647Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:16.88981774Z" } }, "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.7 (C) and 60.1 (C). Granite Guardian leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "granite-guardian", "name": "Granite Guardian", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "model", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "Granite Guardian is IBM's family of open-weight judge models. The current 8-billion-parameter release answers yes or no on whether a prompt, response, retrieved context or function call meets a built-in or custom criterion, and the owner runs it.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-guardian.json", "repo": "https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-guardian", "license": "Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key is needed to download or run the model. The Hugging Face repository is not gated. A vLLM or Ollama server has whatever authentication the owner adds.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under the Apache 2.0 licence, with the owner's hardware as the cost. IBM's watsonx.ai lists only the earlier `ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b`, marked deprecated, at $0.0002 per 1,000 input or output tokens (checked 2026-10-08). Version 4.1 is not on that list.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Granite Guardian is a model the owner runs, with no payment route (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 182, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/guardian", "capabilities": [ "guard.moderation", "guard.policy", "guard.injection", "guard.self-host" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "apache-2.0", "judge", "rag", "python", "ollama" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 478, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 60, "reliability": 56, "schema": 60, "security": 58, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One ungated Apache 2.0 model judges harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call errors and custom criteria, with signed weights and published evaluation code. It is trained and tested on English only, each call checks one criterion, the 4.1 prompt format differs from 3.x, and IBM's watsonx.ai lists only the deprecated 3.0 model.", "bestFor": "A team with a GPU that wants one English-language judge for harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call checks and house rules, under a permissive licence with no gate.", "strengths": [ "Weights are ungated on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence, with IBM's own GGUF builds and an Ollama library entry", "Built-in criteria cover harm, social bias, jailbreaking, violence, profanity, sexual content, unethical behaviour, three RAG checks and function-call hallucination", "A custom criterion is one natural-language sentence in the prompt, and the answer is `yes` or `no` inside `\u003cscore\u003e` tags", "The repository's `evaluation` folder reproduces the card's benchmark figures for versions 3.0 to 4.1", "Weights carry a sigstore signature in `model.sig`, and IBM documents how to verify it" ], "weaknesses": [ "Trained and tested on English only, per the model card", "Each call judges one criterion, so checking several risks takes several calls or a separate LoRA adapter built on the 3.2 model", "Version 4.1 moved the criterion into a `\u003cguardian\u003e` block in the last user message, where 3.x cookbooks pass `guardian_config`", "The repository has no CI, no tests and no `SECURITY.md`, and an issue asking for one has been open since 9 February 2025", "The card's out-of-distribution safety F1 is 0.79 without thinking, below the 0.81 it reports for version 3.3", "IBM's watsonx.ai model list has only `ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b`, marked deprecated, so 4.1 has no hosted endpoint from IBM that we found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Append the `\u003cguardian\u003e` block as the final user message, with the mode line, `### Criteria:` and `### Scoring Schema:`. Copy the strings from the model card, because no package builds them", "Use the no-think instruction for gating and parse `\u003cscore\u003e`. Think mode writes a reasoning trace first, and the card's examples allow up to 2,048 output tokens", "Treat `yes` as the criterion being met, which for built-in criteria means the risk is present. Treat a missing `\u003cscore\u003e` tag as a failed check", "Pass retrieved text through `documents=` and tool schemas through `available_tools=` in `apply_chat_template`, not inside the message text", "Under Ollama, set `num_ctx` in the request options. IBM's docs say the default context is short and long requests are truncated" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 60, "reliability": 56, "schema": 60, "security": 58, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 73 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install transformers torch vllm", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"granite4.1-guardian:8b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/guard.moderation", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-guardian" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation", "domain": "ibm.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "IBM's naming guidance for Granite names International Business Machines Corporation as the developer and trademark owner.", "The Apache 2.0 licence in the repository is the document that governs use of the weights, so it is recorded as the terms. The Hugging Face repository declares the same licence in its metadata and has no licence file of its own.", "No privacy policy governs the model, because the owner runs it and no input reaches IBM. The privacy field is left out.", "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt is present with PSIRT, HackerOne and email contacts and expires on 8 November 2026.", "RDAP gives 19 March 1986 as the registration date of ibm.com.", "IBM hosts no endpoint for version 4.1 that we found, so there is no status page. The repository has no changelog file. Dated notes sit in the README under What's New.", "Weights are on huggingface.co under the ibm-granite organisation and the code is at github.com/ibm-granite/granite-guardian, both off ibm.com." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Microsoft Azure", "b": "IBM", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "2026-04-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk", "b": "182 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.7 (C) and 60.1 (C). Granite Guardian leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) or Granite Guardian?" }, { "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Granite Guardian needs no key.", "question": "Do Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) has a hosted endpoint at https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt. No hosted endpoint is listed for Granite Guardian.", "question": "Can an agent call Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 60", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69", "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 58", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 70" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "An agent on Azure that retrieves documents and needs indirect-injection checks next to harm-category moderation.", "slug": "azure-ai-content-safety", "watchFor": "Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, before the first call" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "A team with a GPU that wants one English-language judge for harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call checks and house rules, under a permissive licence with no gate.", "slug": "granite-guardian", "watchFor": "Trained and tested on English only, per the model card" } ], "job": { "capability": "guard.injection", "name": "Guard injection" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-azure-ai-content-safety.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-azure-ai-content-safety" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-granite-guardian.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Granite Guardian", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-granite-guardian" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-cisco-ai-defense-inspection.json", "title": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Cisco AI Defense Inspection API", "url": 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Both do guard injection.\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields): grade C, 60.7/100, rank #449 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-ai-content-safety.json\n- Granite Guardian: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #478 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-guardian.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (C)\n\nGood for: An agent on Azure that retrieves documents and needs indirect-injection checks next to harm-category moderation.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 58\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, before the first call\n\n### Granite Guardian (C)\n\nGood for: A team with a GPU that wants one English-language judge for harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call checks and house rules, under a permissive licence with no gate.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Trained and tested on English only, per the model card\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Granite Guardian | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 56 | Granite Guardian +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 60 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 69 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 58 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 60 | Granite Guardian +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 47 | Granite Guardian +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 70 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.7 · C** | **60.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Granite Guardian |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | IBM |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-04-29 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk | 182 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields).** Prompt Shields checks up to five retrieved documents for indirect injection, not only the user prompt. Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, before the first call.\n\n**Granite Guardian.** One ungated Apache 2.0 model judges harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call errors and custom criteria, with signed weights and published evaluation code. It is trained and tested on English only, each call checks one criterion, the 4.1 prompt format differs from 3.x, and IBM's watsonx.ai lists only the deprecated 3.0 model.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields)\n\n1. Send retrieved pages and tool results in the documents array of shieldPrompt, not in userPrompt, so document attacks are reported separately\n2. Call text:shieldPrompt over REST with api-version=2024-09-01. The Python SDK 1.0.0 has no method for it\n3. Keep each request under 10,000 characters across prompt and documents, and split long tool results\n4. Create the resource in a region that lists Prompt Shields, since not every region has it\n5. On F0 you get 5 requests a second. Queue checks or move to S0 before load testing\n\n### Granite Guardian\n\n1. Append the `\u003cguardian\u003e` block as the final user message, with the mode line, `### Criteria:` and `### Scoring Schema:`. Copy the strings from the model card, because no package builds them\n2. Use the no-think instruction for gating and parse `\u003cscore\u003e`. Think mode writes a reasoning trace first, and the card's examples allow up to 2,048 output tokens\n3. Treat `yes` as the criterion being met, which for built-in criteria means the risk is present. Treat a missing `\u003cscore\u003e` tag as a failed check\n4. Pass retrieved text through `documents=` and tool schemas through `available_tools=` in `apply_chat_template`, not inside the message text\n5. Under Ollama, set `num_ctx` in the request options. IBM's docs say the default context is short and long requests are truncated\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) or Granite Guardian?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.7 (C) and 60.1 (C). Granite Guardian leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian need an API key?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Granite Guardian needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and Granite Guardian without installing anything?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) has a hosted endpoint at https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt. 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