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The hosted remote inference that some validators used (detect_pii, toxic_language, competitor_check, nsfw_text) was free and was switched off on 2026-08-25, so those validators now cost whatever it takes to run their models yourself with use_local=True or on your own endpoint (https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/blob/main/HUB_UPDATE.md).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "library", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 7300, "npmWeekly": 81, "pypiWeekly": 32438, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.guardrailsai.com/docs", "capabilities": [ "guard.injection", "guard.pii", "guard.moderation", "guard.policy", "guard.self-host" ], "tags": [ "framework", "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "python", "free", "openai-compatible", "incidents" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.8, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 366, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 60, "reliability": 58, "schema": 59, "security": 44, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-05-11 supply-chain compromise. An attacker used an employee's GitHub token to run Actions across 30 repositories, took deploy secrets and published a malicious guardrails-ai 0.10.1 to PyPI. Quarantined in about two hours, tokens rotated, Hub and Snowglobe keys force-rotated on 13 May, and a full advisory published telling anyone who installed 0.10.1 to treat the host as compromised. Fixed and documented, so partly decayed (-6). https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/blob/main/SECURITY_ADVISORY.md" ], "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "Guard and validator API that reads well, with an on_fail action per validator", "Validators are plain PyPI packages, from PII and toxicity to schema and competitor checks", "Guardrails Server turns a guard into an OpenAI-compatible endpoint any client can point at", "Full public advisory after the May 2026 incident, with the attack chain and rotation steps", "Apache-2.0 with nothing to buy" ], "weaknesses": [ "Acquired by Harvey on 9 September 2026 with no statement on the library", "Hub, private registry and hosted inference closed on 25 August 2026, so model-backed validators need your own compute", "Malicious 0.10.1 release on PyPI in May 2026 from a compromised token", "0.11.0 has no release notes on GitHub, and open 1.0.0 issues plan to remove reask, on_fail and RAIL", "Metrics on by default in the client config" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin guardrails-ai==0.11.0 and each guardrails-ai-\u003cvalidator\u003e package, install only from PyPI, and never install 0.10.1", "Import validators from guardrails_ai.\u003cname\u003e, not guardrails.hub, and don't run guardrails hub install", "Pass use_local=True to detect_pii, toxic_language and the other model-backed validators, or set validation_endpoint to a server you run", "Set enable_metrics to false in ~/.guardrailsrc if you don't want usage metrics sent", "Avoid building on reask and RAIL. 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Both do guard injection. The largest gap is security \u0026 auth, 56 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-guardrails-ai.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Cloud Model Armor has a score of 78 (A) against Guardrails AI's 49.8 (D). Both do guard injection. The largest gap is security \u0026 auth, 56 points.\n\n- Google Cloud Model Armor: grade A, 78/100, rank #16 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-model-armor.json\n- Guardrails AI: grade D, 49.8/100, rank #366 of 452. 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 Google Cloud Model Armor for reliability (+32), schema \u0026 documentation (+19), agent ergonomics (+12), security \u0026 auth (+56), maintenance \u0026 community (+41), transparency \u0026 trust (+27).\n\nPick Guardrails AI for payments \u0026 pricing (+40).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Cloud Model Armor | Guardrails AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 58 | Google Cloud Model Armor +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 59 | Google Cloud Model Armor +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 63 | Google Cloud Model Armor +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 100 | 44 | Google Cloud Model Armor +56 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Guardrails AI +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 44 | Google Cloud Model Armor +41 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 61 | Google Cloud Model Armor +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **78 · A** | **49.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Model Armor | Guardrails AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Guardrails AI (Harvey) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | 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 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-08-14 |\n| Popularity | 210k npm/wk, 471k PyPI/wk | 7.3k stars, 81 npm/wk, 32k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Cloud Model Armor.** 2 million free tokens a month, then $0.10 per million. OAuth only, and a template must exist in the same location as the endpoint 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### Google Cloud Model Armor\n\n1. Create one template per location you call from. A template in us-central1 doesn't answer on the europe-west2 endpoint\n2. Call `sanitizeUserPrompt` before the model and `sanitizeModelResponse` after, and read filterMatchState on both\n3. Treat EXECUTION_SKIPPED as unchecked, not clean. It means the input went over the filter's 65,536-token cap\n4. Pin the template to the Stable alias, and move off v1 and v2 before 17 December 2026\n5. Retry 500, 502, 503 and 504 with truncated exponential backoff, and keep fan-out under the 1,200 queries a minute shared by the project\n\n### Guardrails AI\n\n1. 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The open 1.0.0 issues plan to remove both\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Cloud Model Armor or Guardrails AI\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-google-model-armor.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 Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-guardrails-ai.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-lakera-guard.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-nemo-guardrails.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- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-mistral-moderation.md)\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-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", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Google Cloud Model Armor vs Guardrails AI", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Cloud Model Armor has a score of 78 (A) against Guardrails AI's 49.8 (D). 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