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          "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 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 Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) for schema \u0026 documentation (+10), agent ergonomics (+15), security \u0026 auth (+30), transparency \u0026 trust (+22).\n\nPick Guardrails AI for payments \u0026 pricing (+45).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Guardrails AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 58 | Guardrails AI +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 59 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 63 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 44 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 60 | Guardrails AI +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 44 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 61 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **49.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Guardrails AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Guardrails AI (Harvey) |\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 |\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 | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-08-14 |\n| Popularity | 17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk | 7.3k stars, 81 npm/wk, 32k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2/5 (2) |\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**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### 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### 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 Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) 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 Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-google-model-armor.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-nemo-guardrails.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- [Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-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- [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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