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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 Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) for reliability (+15), security \u0026 auth (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+12).\n\nPick Mistral Moderation API for schema \u0026 documentation (+16), payments \u0026 pricing (+25).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Mistral Moderation API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 40 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 85 | Mistral Moderation API +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 75 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 54 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 40 | Mistral Moderation API +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 33 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 83 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.9 · C** | **58.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | Mistral Moderation API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Mistral AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt` | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | 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 | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-03-01 |\n| Popularity | 17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk | 769 stars, 8.4M npm/wk, 3.7M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (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**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### 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### 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 Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) 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- [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 Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-guardrails-ai.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- [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 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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