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SCC Premium and Enterprise (Google Cloud's security console tiers) include 3 billion tokens a month with the same overage, and it's included with a Gemini Enterprise subscription (https://cloud.google.com/security/products/model-armor).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 209632, "pypiWeekly": 471218, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/model-armor/overview", "capabilities": [ "guard.injection", "guard.pii", "guard.moderation", "guard.policy" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "eu", "oauth", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 77.9, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 15, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 20, "reliability": 90, "schema": 78, "security": 100, "transparency": 87 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "2 million free tokens a month, then $0.10 per million. 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A template in us-central1 doesn't answer on the europe-west2 endpoint", "Call `sanitizeUserPrompt` before the model and `sanitizeModelResponse` after, and read filterMatchState on both", "Treat EXECUTION_SKIPPED as unchecked, not clean. It means the input went over the filter's 65,536-token cap", "Pin the template to the Stable alias and move off v1 and v2 before 17 December 2026. 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The pricing lives on the product page rather than a separate pricing page, which returns 404.", "The Cloud terms define the contracting Google entity by customer region at https://cloud.google.com/terms/google-entity." ], "score": 97 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.json", "live": { "slug": "google-model-armor", "probe": { "target": "https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:14.558924933Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1946, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 230, "ok": 0 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "googleapis/google-cloud-python", "version": "google-auth-v2.61.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:13.109183447Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google-cloud/modelarmor", "version": "0.9.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:09.676007756Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-cloud-modelarmor", "version": "0.7.2", "released": "2026-10-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:14:09.561900968Z" } ], "githubStars": 5401, "npmWeekly": 225262, "pypiWeekly": 400414, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:39.75078566Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "google.com", "registered": "1997-09-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.737985829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/model-armor/release-notes", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:28.335254001Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9db308e1af5c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:14.558924933Z" } }, "answer": "Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "llama-guard", "name": "Llama Guard 4", "vendor": "Meta", "vendorUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama", "kind": "model", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "Llama Guard 4 is Meta's 12-billion-parameter open-weight safety classifier for text and images. It labels a prompt or a model response safe or unsafe against 14 hazard categories, and the owner runs it on a GPU.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/llama-guard.json", "repo": "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama", "license": "Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "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).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Llama Guard 4 is a model the owner runs, with no payment route (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 4423, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/llama-guard-4", "capabilities": [ "guard.moderation", "guard.policy", "guard.self-host" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "gated", "multimodal", "python", "openai-compatible" ], "lastRelease": "2025-04-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 614, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 45, "reliability": 38, "schema": 52, "security": 53, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "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.", "strengths": [ "One 12B model covers text and multi-image prompts, replacing Llama Guard 3-8B and 3-11B-vision per Meta's docs", "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "Weights last changed on 29 April 2025, with no changelog, version tags or stated deprecation policy", "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" ], "agentNotes": [ "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 45, "reliability": 38, "schema": 52, "security": 53, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 58 }, "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?\"}]}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/guard.moderation", "tool": "https://letme.dev/llama-guard" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.", "domain": "llama.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "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." ], "score": 58 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.json", "live": { "slug": "llama-guard", "pages": [ { "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:57.76184224Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c85892d02c88" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:57.76184224Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google Cloud", "b": "Meta", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-28", "b": "2025-04-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-02", "b": "2025-04-05", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "210k npm/wk, 471k PyPI/wk", "b": "4.4k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Google Cloud Model Armor or Llama Guard 4?" }, { "answer": "Google Cloud Model Armor uses an OAuth sign-in. Llama Guard 4 needs no key.", "question": "Do Google Cloud Model Armor and Llama Guard 4 need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Google Cloud Model Armor has a hosted endpoint at https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt. No hosted endpoint is listed for Llama Guard 4.", "question": "Can an agent call Google Cloud Model Armor and Llama Guard 4 without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 38", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 52", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 100 against 53", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 28", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 55" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Teams already on Google Cloud who want prompt and response screening with real PII detection, document and URL scanning, and audit logs, at the lowest paid rate in the category.", "slug": "google-model-armor", "watchFor": "OAuth only, and a template must exist in the same location as the endpoint before the first call" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "A team outside the EU 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Armor vs Mistral Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-mistral-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-openai-moderation.json", "title": "Google Cloud Model Armor vs OpenAI Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-openai-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-llama-guard.json", "title": "Guardrails AI vs Llama Guard 4", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-llama-guard" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-llama-guard.json", "title": "Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs Llama Guard 4", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-llama-guard" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-mistral-moderation.json", "title": "Llama Guard 4 vs Mistral Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-mistral-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-nemo-guardrails.json", "title": "Llama Guard 4 vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-nemo-guardrails" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-openai-moderation.json", "title": "Llama Guard 4 vs OpenAI Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-openai-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-google-model-armor.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Google Cloud Model Armor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-google-model-armor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-ai-content-safety-vs-google-model-armor.json", "title": "Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) vs Google Cloud Model Armor", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-microsoft-presidio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-microsoft-presidio.json", "title": "Llama Guard 4 vs Presidio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-microsoft-presidio" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 52, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 90, "key": "reliability", "llama-guard": 38, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 78, "key": "schema", "llama-guard": 52, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 75, "key": "ergonomics", "llama-guard": 67, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 47, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 100, "key": "security", "llama-guard": 53, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "llama-guard", "google-model-armor": 20, "key": "payments", "llama-guard": 45, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 57, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 85, "key": "maintenance", "llama-guard": 28, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "google-model-armor", "google-model-armor": 87, "key": "transparency", "llama-guard": 55, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do guard moderation.", "verdicts": { "google-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.", "llama-guard": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do guard moderation.\n\n- Google Cloud Model Armor: grade BB, 77.9/100, rank #15 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-model-armor.json\n- Llama Guard 4: grade D, 49.1/100, rank #614 of 722. 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### Google Cloud Model Armor (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Google Cloud who want prompt and response screening with real PII detection, document and URL scanning, and audit logs, at the lowest paid rate in the category.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 38\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 52\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 100 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: OAuth only, and a template must exist in the same location as the endpoint 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 20\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 | Google Cloud Model Armor | Llama Guard 4 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 38 | Google Cloud Model Armor +52 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 52 | Google Cloud Model Armor +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 67 | Google Cloud Model Armor +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 100 | 53 | Google Cloud Model Armor +47 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 45 | Llama Guard 4 +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 28 | Google Cloud Model Armor +57 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 55 | Google Cloud Model Armor +32 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **77.9 · BB** | **49.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Model Armor | Llama Guard 4 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Meta |\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 | 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 | 2026-09-28 | 2025-04-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2025-04-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 210k npm/wk, 471k PyPI/wk | 4.4k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |\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**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### 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. In asia-northeast3, v1 stays the Stable version\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### 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. The card says the model can itself be moved by adversarial or injected text\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Google Cloud Model Armor or Llama Guard 4?\n\nGoogle Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Google Cloud Model Armor and Llama Guard 4 need an API key?\n\nGoogle Cloud Model Armor uses an OAuth sign-in. Llama Guard 4 needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Google Cloud Model Armor and Llama Guard 4 without installing anything?\n\nGoogle Cloud Model Armor has a hosted endpoint at https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt. No hosted endpoint is listed for Llama Guard 4.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-vs-llama-guard.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-model-armor\", \"b\": \"llama-guard\"}`. 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