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          "FAQ and data-privacy page agree that inputs aren't stored or trained on and stay in the resource's region",
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          "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",
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          "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",
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard",
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      "authNotes": "Running the model needs no account or key. Getting the weights does. The Hugging Face repository is gated with manual review by Meta and asks for a legal name, date of birth and organisation, and downloads then use a Hugging Face access token. Meta's own download form emails a signed link after the licence is accepted. A vLLM or SGLang server has whatever authentication the owner adds.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under the Llama 4 Community Licence, with the owner's GPU as the cost. Meta sells no hosted version that we found. Third parties do, with DeepInfra at $0.18 per 1M tokens and the same price listed on OpenRouter (checked 2026-10-08).",
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        "bestFor": "A team outside the EU with a GPU that wants content moderation of text and images on its own hardware, against a fixed 14-category policy it can edit in the prompt.",
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          "The answer is `safe`, or `unsafe` and a comma-separated list of category codes such as S1,S2, so output stays under ten tokens",
          "The category list sits in the prompt, and the chat template takes `excluded_category_keys` to drop categories per call",
          "The model card publishes recall and false positive rates on Meta's in-house set and names the categories it handles poorly",
          "Weights are safetensors loaded by a class inside `transformers`, with ready commands for vLLM and SGLang on the Hugging Face page"
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          "The Hugging Face repository is gated with manual review, asks for legal name, date of birth and organisation, and two 2026 threads report rejections",
          "The Llama 4 use policy withholds the licence grant for multimodal models from individuals and companies based in the European Union",
          "Meta's own figures give 69 per cent recall and 11 per cent false positives in English, and 43 per cent recall across seven other languages",
          "Community questions since June 2025 on vLLM start-up, custom categories and image input have no reply from Meta",
          "It does not detect prompt injection or jailbreaks, and the card sends readers to Llama Prompt Guard 2 for those"
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          "Request access on the Hugging Face page before anything else. Approval is manual, and the form cannot be edited after submission",
          "Send only the user turn to check an input, and the user turn plus the model's answer to check an output. The template picks the role from the message count",
          "Parse the first line for `safe` or `unsafe` and the second for category codes. Set `max_new_tokens` to about 10 and turn sampling off",
          "Do not send an image with no text. Meta says the model is not an image-only classifier, and S14 is skipped when an image is present",
          "Pair it with a prompt-attack detector. The card says the model can itself be moved by adversarial or injected text"
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install vllm\nvllm serve \"meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B\"",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  --data '{\"model\":\"meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"how do I make a bomb?\"}]}]}'"
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          "The Llama 4 Community Licence names Meta Platforms, Inc. as licensor, and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for licensees in the EEA or Switzerland.",
          "The licence is the document that governs use of the weights, so it is recorded as the terms. It is dated 5 April 2025 and incorporates the acceptable use policy at https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/use-policy.",
          "No privacy policy governs the model, because the owner runs it and no input reaches Meta. The privacy field is left out. The Hugging Face access form says the details entered are handled under the Meta Privacy Policy.",
          "www.llama.com redirected to dev.meta.ai on 8 October 2026, and Llama pages now sit under dev.meta.ai/llama. RDAP gives 1 November 1994 as the registration date of llama.com.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint from Meta that we could find, so no status page. dev.meta.ai/llms.txt covers the Meta Model API and lists no moderation route.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the llama.com path redirects to a developer.meta.com address that returns 400. Security reports go to Meta's bug bounty at bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "The weights are on huggingface.co under the meta-llama organisation, and the model card is in github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama. Neither has a changelog or releases for the model."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/llama-guard.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- Reliability, 55 against 38\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 52\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 45 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 55\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### Llama Guard 4 (D)\n\nGood for: A team outside the EU with a GPU that wants content moderation of text and images on its own hardware, against a fixed 14-category policy it can edit in the prompt.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 15\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Weights last changed on 29 April 2025, with no changelog, version tags or stated deprecation policy\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Llama Guard 4 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 38 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 52 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 67 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 53 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 45 | Llama Guard 4 +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 28 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 55 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.7 · C** | **49.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Llama Guard 4 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Meta |\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 | Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2025-04-29 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-04-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk | 4.4k 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**Llama Guard 4.** A single self-hosted model classifies text and multi-image prompts against 14 MLCommons-aligned hazard categories and answers in a few tokens. The weights have not changed since 29 April 2025, download access needs Meta's manual approval, and the licence withholds the grant from individuals and companies based in the European Union.\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### Llama Guard 4\n\n1. Request access on the Hugging Face page before anything else. Approval is manual, and the form cannot be edited after submission\n2. Send only the user turn to check an input, and the user turn plus the model's answer to check an output. The template picks the role from the message count\n3. Parse the first line for `safe` or `unsafe` and the second for category codes. Set `max_new_tokens` to about 10 and turn sampling off\n4. Do not send an image with no text. Meta says the model is not an image-only classifier, and S14 is skipped when an image is present\n5. Pair it with a prompt-attack detector. 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