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        "llms-txt",
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          "2025-11-09, disclosed by OpenAI after notice on 2025-11-25. A breach at Mixpanel, OpenAI's analytics vendor, exposed names, email addresses, coarse location, browser data and organisation and user IDs of platform.openai.com users. No API keys, API requests or usage data were exposed, and OpenAI removed Mixpanel. Fixed and documented, so a small, decayed deduction, the same as other OpenAI API listings in this run (-2). https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident/"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-moderation.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Google Cloud Model Armor for reliability (+25), security \u0026 auth (+8), maintenance \u0026 community (+38).\n\nPick OpenAI Moderation API for schema \u0026 documentation (+14), agent ergonomics (+10), payments \u0026 pricing (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Cloud Model Armor | OpenAI Moderation API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 65 | Google Cloud Model Armor +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 92 | OpenAI Moderation API +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 85 | OpenAI Moderation API +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 100 | 92 | Google Cloud Model Armor +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | OpenAI Moderation API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 47 | Google Cloud Model Armor +38 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 90 | OpenAI Moderation API +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **78 · A** | **71.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Model Armor | OpenAI Moderation API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt` | `https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | 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 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-06-04 |\n| Popularity | 210k npm/wk, 471k PyPI/wk | 31k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | 4/5 (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**OpenAI Moderation API.** Free, on any OpenAI project key. No prompt-injection, jailbreak or PII detection.\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### OpenAI Moderation API\n\n1. Read category_scores rather than flagged alone. The default thresholds are OpenAI's\n2. Pin omni-moderation-2024-09-26 if the scores feed a decision you audit. The latest alias will move\n3. Send an array of inputs in one call and match results by index to stay under the per-minute limit\n4. Add a moderation object to a Responses call instead of a second request when you only need scores on the generation\n5. Pair it with a separate injection detector. A clean result says nothing about a hidden instruction in a tool result\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Cloud Model Armor or OpenAI Moderation API\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-google-model-armor.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- [Google Cloud Model Armor vs Guardrails AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-model-armor-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- [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-openai-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 OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails-ai-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Lakera Guard (Check Point AI Guardrails) vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lakera-guard-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [Mistral Moderation API vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n- [NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails vs OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemo-guardrails-vs-openai-moderation.md)\n",
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