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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": "2026-08-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 341, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 15, "reliability": 75, "schema": 74, "security": 86, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Prompt Shields checks up to five retrieved documents for indirect injection, not only the user prompt, and the API has its own 99.9 per cent SLA level. 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"medianDays": 2 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:12.096774888Z" } }, "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "shieldgemma", "name": "ShieldGemma", "vendor": "Google DeepMind", "vendorUrl": "https://gemma.ai/models/shieldgemma.md", "kind": "model", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "ShieldGemma is Google's family of open-weight safety classifiers built on Gemma. ShieldGemma 1 (2B, 9B, 27B) scores English text against hate, harassment, dangerous and sexual content policies, and ShieldGemma 2 (4B) scores images. The owner runs them.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shieldgemma.json", "dns": "shieldgemma.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/collections/google/shieldgemma-67d130ef8da6af884072a789", "license": "Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-2b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-9b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-27b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-2-4b-it" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "shieldgemma" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No key is needed to run the model. Google's files on Hugging Face are gated, so a person logs in, reviews the Gemma licence and accepts it, and the Hub page says requests are approved immediately. Kaggle also needs an account. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account. Any authentication on the server is the owner's to add (checked 2026-11-06).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under the Gemma Terms of Use, with the owner's hardware as the cost. Google sells no hosted ShieldGemma that we found, and the Hub's API lists no inference provider for any of the four repositories (checked 2026-11-06).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights the owner downloads and runs, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://gemma.ai/models/shieldgemma/model-card-v1.md", "llmsTxt": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "guard.moderation", "guard.policy", "guard.self-host" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "gated", "multimodal", "python", "ollama" ], "lastRelease": "2025-04-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 921, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 52, "reliability": 46, "schema": 56, "security": 53, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance.", "bestFor": "Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.", "strengths": [ "Scoring mode returns the probability of `Yes` per policy from one forward pass, so the caller sets its own threshold", "Four sizes, ShieldGemma 1 at 2B, 9B and 27B for text and ShieldGemma 2 at 4B for images", "Cards give the exact guideline wording for each harm type, separately for input and output filtering, in Markdown listed in gemma.ai/llms.txt", "Google accounts replied to every Hub thread we sampled, the newest on 22 March 2026", "Safetensors only, loaded through Transformers classes with no remote code, and Ollama's library carries ShieldGemma 1" ], "weaknesses": [ "No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy", "ShieldGemma 1 covers four harm types in English only, and neither generation has a prompt-injection or jailbreak category", "Each call checks one policy, so screening all four text harm types takes four passes", "Google's files need a Hugging Face or Kaggle login and licence acceptance before download", "The Gemma Terms of Use add a prohibited use policy and let Google restrict usage remotely" ], "agentNotes": [ "Copy the prompt pattern and guideline text from the card word for word, since the card says the model is highly sensitive to policy wording", "Read the `Yes` and `No` logits and apply softmax for a score, rather than generating text, and choose a threshold for your use", "Use the prompt-only guidelines to filter user input and the prompt-response guidelines to filter model output", "Run one call per policy, and pair it with a separate prompt-injection filter, since ShieldGemma has no injection category", "Accept the Gemma licence on Hugging Face with a person's account before an agent can download Google's files" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 52, "reliability": 46, "schema": 56, "security": 53, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 58, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U transformers[accelerate]" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/guard.moderation", "tool": "https://letme.dev/shieldgemma" }, "sameCompany": [ "embeddinggemma-2", "embeddinggemma-300m", "diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-31b-it", "gemma-4-e2b-it", "gemma-4-e4b-it" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai; the Gemma Terms of Use are Google's and the cards name Google as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://gemma.ai/resources/terms.md", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Nothing is hosted, so the Gemma Terms of Use stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "RDAP for gemma.ai, read on 6 November 2026, gives a registration date of 16 December 2017 and Google LLC as registrant, with MarkMonitor as registrar.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered with the site's HTML page, not a security.txt, on 6 November 2026. Google's company-wide security.txt at www.google.com is valid until 1 April 2030 and points to its vulnerability reward programme.", "gemma.ai/robots.txt and ai.google.dev/robots.txt allow our reader. huggingface.co/robots.txt allows all paths, and the Hub's model API was used for file metadata and discussion authors only.", "The Hugging Face README files sit behind the gate (raw files answered 401 without a login), so the cards were read from gemma.ai and the public model pages." ], "score": 58 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.json", "live": { "slug": "shieldgemma", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:22.210945228Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:54.388179097Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:22.210945228Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 37, "category": "payments", "leads": "shieldgemma", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-1,000-record prices are public through the Azure Retail Prices API, but the pricing page shows \"$-\" until a region is chosen in the browser (15 of 20). F0 gives 5,000 free text records and 5,000 images a month, but it needs an Azure subscription and an Azure account needs a card (0). A person signs up and creates the resource in a browser (0).", "b": "Self-hosted rule. Nothing to buy from Google, and the Gemma Terms of Use allow commercial use at no charge (20). Free to run with no card (20). Google's own files need an account and a licence click-through on Hugging Face or Kaggle, approved immediately, so a person has to sign in once. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account, and ShieldGemma 2 has none (12 of 20). No payment protocol (0). No hosted ShieldGemma from Google or an inference provider was found. 20 + 20 + 12 + 0 = 52." }, "scores": { "a": 15, "b": 52 } }, { "by": 33, "category": "security", "leads": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Microsoft Entra ID tokens with RBAC, or two resource keys that can be regenerated in turn (30). RBAC can limit a caller, but a resource key also reaches the blocklist write and delete operations, with no confirmation step (15 of 20). Prompt Shields detects user-prompt and document attacks, and the docs describe Spotlighting for third-party content, in preview (15). The Foundry Tools diagnostic logging page describes Audit and RequestResponse logs through Azure Monitor for Cognitive Services resources once the owner adds a diagnostic setting, as the Document Intelligence listing reads it. We didn't confirm the fields for Content Safety (12, was 0). Coordinated disclosure policy and MSRC bounty programmes linked from security.txt, but microsoft.com's security.txt passed its Expires date on 23 September 2026 and still carries it on 3 November (4 of 5), bounty (5), SOC or ISO coverage for Content Safety by name not confirmed (0), MSRC publishes advisories (5), so 14 of 20. An MSRC affected-product search on 3 November finds no CVE naming Content Safety. The 2026 Azure AI Foundry CVEs name Foundry, not this service, so no deduction, as on the Speech, Translator and Document Intelligence listings. 30 + 15 + 15 + 12 + 14 = 86.", "b": "Read as a model the owner runs, on the model lines used for Granite Guardian, with retention and training in place of the read-only line. No key is needed to run it. Google's files need a Hugging Face login and licence acceptance, approved immediately, so there is a token to download but no secret at run time (13 of 30). Self-hosted, so inputs stay on the owner's hardware and nothing reaches Google, though no Google page says so (15 of 20). It reads untrusted text by design. The card says the model is highly sensitive to the policy wording and may behave unpredictably with ambiguous language, and gives no prompt-injection guidance (6 of 15). No call log of its own, though each call returns a score (5 of 15). Weights are safetensors only and load through Transformers classes with no remote code. Google's security.txt is valid and points to its reward programme, and there is no model-specific security page or advisory record (14 of 20). 13 + 15 + 6 + 5 + 14 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 86, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 29, "category": "reliability", "leads": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Azure status page with a post-incident review history (20). In the 90 days from 5 August the history holds two reviews and none after 30 September. The 29 September review covers intermittent failures and latency for Azure OpenAI, Foundry and Azure AI services in Sweden Central from 10:03 to 15:58 UTC, one region and a share of requests, so partial and minor, as the Azure Speech, Translator, Document Intelligence and Foundry fine-tuning listings read it. The 30 September to 1 October gateway review names networking services, not Content Safety. The 23 July West US review counted on 1 October has left the window. Minor only (20, was 10). Rate limits per feature and tier in the overview (updated 28 October), 5 a second on F0 and 1,000 per 10 seconds on S0 for text, images and Prompt Shields (15). No 429 or backoff guidance in the Content Safety docs (0). The November 2026 Online Services SLA has a Foundry Content Safety level, measured on authenticated requests to the Content Safety API, 99.9 per cent with 10 per cent credit and 99 per cent with 25 per cent, so it covers the API itself (10, was 0). Text analysis, image analysis and Prompt Shields are GA on api-version 2024-09-01 (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 75.", "b": "Scored on the local-software lines, since the owner runs the model, the reading used for Llama Guard and Granite Guardian. Google's install line is `pip install -U transformers[accelerate]` with no versions, a Keras Colab notebook covers ShieldGemma 1, and Ollama's own library carries ShieldGemma 1. No Python version or memory figure is stated, and the publisher's files sit behind a login and licence click-through (12 of 20). No CI, tests or evaluation code for the models were found. The technical reports describe the evaluation and nothing reruns it (0 of 25). On the Hub, 8 of 23 threads on the 2B, 2 of 10 on the 9B, none of 8 on the 27B and 9 of 10 on ShieldGemma 2 are open, but every open thread we sampled has a reply from a Google account, the newest on 22 March 2026 (15 of 25). No changelog or version tags. The two generations are named and sit in their own repositories (4 of 15). Released with no preview label (15 of 15). 12 + 0 + 15 + 4 + 15 = 46." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 46 } }, { "by": 29, "category": "transparency", "leads": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under Microsoft's product terms (15). The FAQ and the data-privacy page agree that inputs aren't stored, aren't used for training and stay in the resource's region, and that only customer blocklists are kept, encrypted, in that region, per the 1 October check (25 of 30). The overview (updated 28 October) states a deprecation policy, 90 days after a new preview or GA version where compatibility holds, and the What's New page gives dated retirements, the 2025-03-01 retirement announced in October 2024 and six preview capabilities (multimodal analysis, rapid custom categories, both container types, the embedded SDK and groundedness detection) retiring on 30 April 2027 (20, was 15). Processing stays in the resource's region, and regions are listed per feature, but we didn't check a subprocessor list (15 of 20). 15 + 25 + 20 + 15 = 75.", "b": "The weights are under the Gemma Terms of Use, not an OSI licence. They carry distribution conditions, the Prohibited Use Policy and a clause that lets Google restrict usage remotely where it believes the terms are breached. The terms are dated (1 April 2026) with earlier versions archived (15 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware, so no privacy statement applies. ShieldGemma 1 was fine-tuned on synthetic internal data and public datasets described in a technical report, and ShieldGemma 2 on a WebLI subset and synthetic images with CSAM filtering. No data is released (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated model retirements (5 of 20). The weights carry no telemetry of their own, with no statement either way, and downloads go through Hugging Face, Kaggle or Ollama (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 54 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "schema", "leads": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Public OpenAPI (Swagger) documents in Azure/azure-rest-api-specs, with stable 2024-09-01 and previews up to 2026-09-01-preview, error schemas and examples on all 15 operations (25). learn.microsoft.com has no llms.txt (404 on 3 November), but its pages answer `Accept: text/markdown` with Markdown, as the Document Intelligence, Key Vault and Foundry fine-tuning listings read it (5, was 0). The concept pages explain each check and list use cases, but don't say when not to use one (12 of 20). Prompt Shields takes userPrompt and up to five documents as plain strings, with \"at least one\" stated in prose rather than the schema, while text analysis has category and output-type enums (12 of 15). Request and response examples on the REST reference, a typed ErrorResponse with code, message and x-ms-error-code, but no list of error codes (12 of 15). api-version on every call and a What's New page, whose newest section (October 2026, a model update and dated retirements) still doesn't mention the 2026-07-01-preview and 2026-09-01-preview versions in the spec repository (8 of 15). 25 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 12 + 8 = 74.", "b": "Read for a model the owner serves. There is no specification of its own. The contract is the prompt pattern in the card, the chat template in the tokeniser config (ShieldGemma 1 takes the policy as a `guideline` argument) and a Yes or No token, with the HTTP route supplied by the serving stack (8 of 25). gemma.ai/llms.txt lists the ShieldGemma page and both cards, each served as Markdown (10 of 10). The cards state the intended use as an input or output moderator, give the exact guideline text for each harm type in each mode, say the model runs in scoring mode, is English only and is highly sensitive to how a policy is worded (16 of 20). Fixed harm types and a binary answer, with the policy as free text (10 of 15). A Transformers snippet for each generation and a Keras notebook. No failure modes or error cases are documented (8 of 15). Two named generations with no changelog, and the ai.google.dev page is marked deprecated in favour of gemma.ai (4 of 15). 8 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 4 = 56." }, "scores": { "a": 74, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "azure-ai-content-safety", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Prompt Shields answers one boolean per prompt and per document, and text analysis returns four or eight severity levels by choice (20 of 25). Categories, output type and haltOnBlocklistHit are set per request (20). Errors carry a code and message in a standard Azure shape, but the codes aren't documented per operation (15 of 20). Checks have no side effects, but there's no retry guidance (15 of 20). Few required fields, but the Python SDK is 1.0.0 from 12 December 2023 with no Prompt Shields method, and the JavaScript package is a generic REST client, 1.0.1 from January 2025 (8 of 15).", "b": "Read as a classifier an agent calls. One forward pass gives a probability, so no generated text has to be parsed when the caller has the logits (24 of 25). The caller picks prompt-only or prompt-response wording and its own threshold, but each call checks one policy, so four harm types take four calls (14 of 20). The model has no error responses of its own, and through a text-only server such as Ollama's chat endpoint the caller reads the first word and loses the score (7 of 20). Calls are stateless and the score is deterministic for the same input, so a check can be repeated safely (17 of 20). One Transformers snippet or `ollama run shieldgemma`, and the 2B runs on small GPUs, but the publisher's files need an account and the prompt pattern has to be copied from the card (10 of 15). 24 + 14 + 7 + 17 + 10 = 72." }, "scores": { "a": 78, "b": 72 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Microsoft", "b": "Google DeepMind", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "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": "Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-28", "b": "2025-04-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-04-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "17k npm/wk, 218k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) or ShieldGemma?" }, { "answer": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. ShieldGemma needs no key.", "question": "Do Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and ShieldGemma 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 ShieldGemma.", "question": "Can an agent call Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and ShieldGemma without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 46", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 56", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72", "Security \u0026 auth, 86 against 53", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 54" ], "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, 52 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 40 against 35" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.", "slug": "shieldgemma", "watchFor": "No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy" } ], "history": { "azure-ai-content-safety": [ { "causes": [ "evidence", "correction", "time" ], "date": "2026-11-03", "delta": 6.3, "from": 60.7, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 67, "toGrade": "B" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0, "from": 60.7, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 60.7, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.2, "from": 60.9, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 60.7, "toGrade": "C" } ], "shieldgemma": null }, "job": { "capability": "guard.moderation", "name": "Content moderation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-shieldgemma.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs ShieldGemma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-shieldgemma" 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"key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "azure-ai-content-safety": 35, "by": 5, "edge": "shieldgemma", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "shieldgemma": 40, "weight": 7 }, { "azure-ai-content-safety": 83, "by": 29, "edge": "azure-ai-content-safety", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "shieldgemma": 54, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do content moderation.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "azure-ai-content-safety": "Prompt Shields checks up to five retrieved documents for indirect injection, not only the user prompt, and the API has its own 99.9 per cent SLA level. Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, and the stable SDKs date from 2023 and January 2025.", "shieldgemma": "Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma.min.md" }, "markdown": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do content moderation.\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields): grade B, 67/100, rank #341 of 1486. 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- ShieldGemma: grade C, 54/100, rank #921 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shieldgemma.json\n- Best guardrails and safety filters for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/guardrails/index.md\n- All 155 guardrails comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (B)\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, 75 against 46\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 56\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72\n- Security \u0026 auth, 86 against 53\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 54\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### ShieldGemma (C)\n\nGood for: Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 40 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: ShieldGemma +37\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (15): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-1,000-record prices are public through the Azure Retail Prices API, but the pricing page shows \"$-\" until a region is chosen in the browser (15 of 20). F0 gives 5,000 free text records and 5,000 images a month, but it needs an Azure subscription and an Azure account needs a card (0). A person signs up and creates the resource in a browser (0).\n- ShieldGemma (52): Self-hosted rule. Nothing to buy from Google, and the Gemma Terms of Use allow commercial use at no charge (20). Free to run with no card (20). Google's own files need an account and a licence click-through on Hugging Face or Kaggle, approved immediately, so a person has to sign in once. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account, and ShieldGemma 2 has none (12 of 20). No payment protocol (0). No hosted ShieldGemma from Google or an inference provider was found. 20 + 20 + 12 + 0 = 52.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +33\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (86): Microsoft Entra ID tokens with RBAC, or two resource keys that can be regenerated in turn (30). RBAC can limit a caller, but a resource key also reaches the blocklist write and delete operations, with no confirmation step (15 of 20). Prompt Shields detects user-prompt and document attacks, and the docs describe Spotlighting for third-party content, in preview (15). The Foundry Tools diagnostic logging page describes Audit and RequestResponse logs through Azure Monitor for Cognitive Services resources once the owner adds a diagnostic setting, as the Document Intelligence listing reads it. We didn't confirm the fields for Content Safety (12, was 0). Coordinated disclosure policy and MSRC bounty programmes linked from security.txt, but microsoft.com's security.txt passed its Expires date on 23 September 2026 and still carries it on 3 November (4 of 5), bounty (5), SOC or ISO coverage for Content Safety by name not confirmed (0), MSRC publishes advisories (5), so 14 of 20. An MSRC affected-product search on 3 November finds no CVE naming Content Safety. The 2026 Azure AI Foundry CVEs name Foundry, not this service, so no deduction, as on the Speech, Translator and Document Intelligence listings. 30 + 15 + 15 + 12 + 14 = 86.\n- ShieldGemma (53): Read as a model the owner runs, on the model lines used for Granite Guardian, with retention and training in place of the read-only line. No key is needed to run it. Google's files need a Hugging Face login and licence acceptance, approved immediately, so there is a token to download but no secret at run time (13 of 30). Self-hosted, so inputs stay on the owner's hardware and nothing reaches Google, though no Google page says so (15 of 20). It reads untrusted text by design. The card says the model is highly sensitive to the policy wording and may behave unpredictably with ambiguous language, and gives no prompt-injection guidance (6 of 15). No call log of its own, though each call returns a score (5 of 15). Weights are safetensors only and load through Transformers classes with no remote code. Google's security.txt is valid and points to its reward programme, and there is no model-specific security page or advisory record (14 of 20). 13 + 15 + 6 + 5 + 14 = 53.\n\n### Reliability: Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +29\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (75): Azure status page with a post-incident review history (20). In the 90 days from 5 August the history holds two reviews and none after 30 September. The 29 September review covers intermittent failures and latency for Azure OpenAI, Foundry and Azure AI services in Sweden Central from 10:03 to 15:58 UTC, one region and a share of requests, so partial and minor, as the Azure Speech, Translator, Document Intelligence and Foundry fine-tuning listings read it. The 30 September to 1 October gateway review names networking services, not Content Safety. The 23 July West US review counted on 1 October has left the window. Minor only (20, was 10). Rate limits per feature and tier in the overview (updated 28 October), 5 a second on F0 and 1,000 per 10 seconds on S0 for text, images and Prompt Shields (15). No 429 or backoff guidance in the Content Safety docs (0). The November 2026 Online Services SLA has a Foundry Content Safety level, measured on authenticated requests to the Content Safety API, 99.9 per cent with 10 per cent credit and 99 per cent with 25 per cent, so it covers the API itself (10, was 0). Text analysis, image analysis and Prompt Shields are GA on api-version 2024-09-01 (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 75.\n- ShieldGemma (46): Scored on the local-software lines, since the owner runs the model, the reading used for Llama Guard and Granite Guardian. Google's install line is `pip install -U transformers[accelerate]` with no versions, a Keras Colab notebook covers ShieldGemma 1, and Ollama's own library carries ShieldGemma 1. No Python version or memory figure is stated, and the publisher's files sit behind a login and licence click-through (12 of 20). No CI, tests or evaluation code for the models were found. The technical reports describe the evaluation and nothing reruns it (0 of 25). On the Hub, 8 of 23 threads on the 2B, 2 of 10 on the 9B, none of 8 on the 27B and 9 of 10 on ShieldGemma 2 are open, but every open thread we sampled has a reply from a Google account, the newest on 22 March 2026 (15 of 25). No changelog or version tags. The two generations are named and sit in their own repositories (4 of 15). Released with no preview label (15 of 15). 12 + 0 + 15 + 4 + 15 = 46.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +29\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (83): Closed service under Microsoft's product terms (15). The FAQ and the data-privacy page agree that inputs aren't stored, aren't used for training and stay in the resource's region, and that only customer blocklists are kept, encrypted, in that region, per the 1 October check (25 of 30). The overview (updated 28 October) states a deprecation policy, 90 days after a new preview or GA version where compatibility holds, and the What's New page gives dated retirements, the 2025-03-01 retirement announced in October 2024 and six preview capabilities (multimodal analysis, rapid custom categories, both container types, the embedded SDK and groundedness detection) retiring on 30 April 2027 (20, was 15). Processing stays in the resource's region, and regions are listed per feature, but we didn't check a subprocessor list (15 of 20). 15 + 25 + 20 + 15 = 75.\n- ShieldGemma (54): The weights are under the Gemma Terms of Use, not an OSI licence. They carry distribution conditions, the Prohibited Use Policy and a clause that lets Google restrict usage remotely where it believes the terms are breached. The terms are dated (1 April 2026) with earlier versions archived (15 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware, so no privacy statement applies. ShieldGemma 1 was fine-tuned on synthetic internal data and public datasets described in a technical report, and ShieldGemma 2 on a WebLI subset and synthetic images with CSAM filtering. No data is released (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated model retirements (5 of 20). The weights carry no telemetry of their own, with no statement either way, and downloads go through Hugging Face, Kaggle or Ollama (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +18\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (74): Public OpenAPI (Swagger) documents in Azure/azure-rest-api-specs, with stable 2024-09-01 and previews up to 2026-09-01-preview, error schemas and examples on all 15 operations (25). learn.microsoft.com has no llms.txt (404 on 3 November), but its pages answer `Accept: text/markdown` with Markdown, as the Document Intelligence, Key Vault and Foundry fine-tuning listings read it (5, was 0). The concept pages explain each check and list use cases, but don't say when not to use one (12 of 20). Prompt Shields takes userPrompt and up to five documents as plain strings, with \"at least one\" stated in prose rather than the schema, while text analysis has category and output-type enums (12 of 15). Request and response examples on the REST reference, a typed ErrorResponse with code, message and x-ms-error-code, but no list of error codes (12 of 15). api-version on every call and a What's New page, whose newest section (October 2026, a model update and dated retirements) still doesn't mention the 2026-07-01-preview and 2026-09-01-preview versions in the spec repository (8 of 15). 25 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 12 + 8 = 74.\n- ShieldGemma (56): Read for a model the owner serves. There is no specification of its own. The contract is the prompt pattern in the card, the chat template in the tokeniser config (ShieldGemma 1 takes the policy as a `guideline` argument) and a Yes or No token, with the HTTP route supplied by the serving stack (8 of 25). gemma.ai/llms.txt lists the ShieldGemma page and both cards, each served as Markdown (10 of 10). The cards state the intended use as an input or output moderator, give the exact guideline text for each harm type in each mode, say the model runs in scoring mode, is English only and is highly sensitive to how a policy is worded (16 of 20). Fixed harm types and a binary answer, with the policy as free text (10 of 15). A Transformers snippet for each generation and a Keras notebook. No failure modes or error cases are documented (8 of 15). Two named generations with no changelog, and the ai.google.dev page is marked deprecated in favour of gemma.ai (4 of 15). 8 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 4 = 56.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +6\n\n- Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) (78): Prompt Shields answers one boolean per prompt and per document, and text analysis returns four or eight severity levels by choice (20 of 25). Categories, output type and haltOnBlocklistHit are set per request (20). Errors carry a code and message in a standard Azure shape, but the codes aren't documented per operation (15 of 20). Checks have no side effects, but there's no retry guidance (15 of 20). Few required fields, but the Python SDK is 1.0.0 from 12 December 2023 with no Prompt Shields method, and the JavaScript package is a generic REST client, 1.0.1 from January 2025 (8 of 15).\n- ShieldGemma (72): Read as a classifier an agent calls. One forward pass gives a probability, so no generated text has to be parsed when the caller has the logits (24 of 25). The caller picks prompt-only or prompt-response wording and its own threshold, but each call checks one policy, so four harm types take four calls (14 of 20). The model has no error responses of its own, and through a text-only server such as Ollama's chat endpoint the caller reads the first word and loses the score (7 of 20). Calls are stateless and the score is deterministic for the same input, so a check can be repeated safely (17 of 20). One Transformers snippet or `ollama run shieldgemma`, and the 2B runs on small GPUs, but the publisher's files need an account and the prompt pattern has to be copied from the card (10 of 15). 24 + 14 + 7 + 17 + 10 = 72.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | ShieldGemma | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 46 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 56 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 72 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 86 | 53 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +33 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 52 | ShieldGemma +37 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 40 | ShieldGemma +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 54 | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67 · B** | **54 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) | ShieldGemma |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft | Google DeepMind |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-28 | 2025-04-04 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\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 | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields)\n\n- +6.3 on 3 November 2026 (C to B): new evidence, correction, time\n- no change on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### ShieldGemma\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\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, and the API has its own 99.9 per cent SLA level. Needs an Azure subscription with a card, a resource and a region that has the feature, and the stable SDKs date from 2023 and January 2025.\n\n**ShieldGemma.** Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance.\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 stable Python SDK 1.0.0 has no method for it, only the 1.1.0b1 pre-release\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\n6. Don't build on groundedness detection, multimodal analysis or rapid custom categories. They retire on 30 April 2027\n\n### ShieldGemma\n\n1. Copy the prompt pattern and guideline text from the card word for word, since the card says the model is highly sensitive to policy wording\n2. Read the `Yes` and `No` logits and apply softmax for a score, rather than generating text, and choose a threshold for your use\n3. Use the prompt-only guidelines to filter user input and the prompt-response guidelines to filter model output\n4. Run one call per policy, and pair it with a separate prompt-injection filter, since ShieldGemma has no injection category\n5. Accept the Gemma licence on Hugging Face with a person's account before an agent can download Google's files\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) or ShieldGemma?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and ShieldGemma need an API key?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. ShieldGemma needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) and ShieldGemma without installing anything?\n\nAzure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) has a hosted endpoint at https://{resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.com/contentsafety/text:shieldPrompt. No hosted endpoint is listed for ShieldGemma.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-shieldgemma.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"azure-ai-content-safety\", \"b\": \"shieldgemma\"}`. 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