# Granite Guardian vs Llama Guard 4 (slim)

> Granite Guardian scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do guard moderation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Granite Guardian scores 60.1 (C) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do guard moderation.

- Granite Guardian: C 60.1, rank #478 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.min.md
- Llama Guard 4: D 49.1, rank #713 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.min.md
- Granite Guardian, good for A team with a GPU that wants one English-language judge for harm, jailbreaks, RAG groundedness, function-call checks and house rules, under a permissive licence with no gate. Ahead on Reliability, 56 against 38; Schema & documentation, 60 against 52; Security & auth, 58 against 53; Payments & pricing, 60 against 45; Maintenance & community, 47 against 28; Transparency & trust, 70 against 55.
- Llama Guard 4, good 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.

| Category | Granite Guardian | Llama Guard 4 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 56 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 60 | 52 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 47 | 28 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 55 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Guardian | Llama Guard 4 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | Meta |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository | Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy |
| Last release | 2026-04-29 | 2025-04-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-04-05 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 182 stars | 4.4k stars |