# Llama Guard 4 vs LlamaFirewall (slim)

> LlamaFirewall scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do guard policy. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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LlamaFirewall scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do guard policy.

- Llama Guard 4: D 49.1, rank #713 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.min.md
- LlamaFirewall: D 50.8, rank #682 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamafirewall.min.md
- 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 67 against 60; Maintenance & community, 28 against 15.
- LlamaFirewall, good for A Python agent team that wants injection, hidden-character and generated-code checks in process, is willing to pin dependencies or install from main, and can get the gated weights. Ahead on Reliability, 53 against 38; Payments & pricing, 50 against 45. Also Open source.

| Category | Llama Guard 4 | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 38 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 52 | 49 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 15 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Llama Guard 4 | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | Agent framework |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Licence | Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy | MIT (library). The Prompt Guard 2 weights it downloads are under the Llama 4 Community Licence |
| Last release | 2025-04-29 | 2025-05-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-05 | no document linked |
| 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 | 4.4k stars | 4.4k stars, 1k PyPI/wk |