# Granite Guardian vs NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails (slim)

> NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Guardian's 60.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do guard moderation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Guardian's 60.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do guard moderation.

- Granite Guardian: C 60.1, rank #478 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.min.md
- NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails: B 68.4, rank #202 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemo-guardrails.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.
- NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, good for Teams that want to compose several checks (their own, NVIDIA's and third-party APIs) behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 56; Schema & documentation, 69 against 60; Maintenance & community, 80 against 47. Also Open source.

| Category | Granite Guardian | NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 56 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 60 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 47 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Guardian | NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights and the repository | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-04-29 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 182 stars | 7.2k stars, 101k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |