# Llama Guard 4 vs Presidio (slim)

> Presidio scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do guard self host. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Presidio scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do guard self host.

- Llama Guard 4: D 49.1, rank #614 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard.min.md
- Presidio: B 66, rank #248 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-presidio.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.
- Presidio, good for Detecting and masking personal data in prompts, outputs, logs and images on the owner's own machines, with detection tuned by entity, threshold and custom recognisers. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 38; Schema & documentation, 69 against 52; Payments & pricing, 60 against 45; Maintenance & community, 63 against 28; Transparency & trust, 65 against 55. Also Open source.

| Category | Llama Guard 4 | Presidio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 38 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 52 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Llama Guard 4 | Presidio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Meta | Data Privacy Stack |
| Licence | Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy | MIT |
| Last release | 2025-04-29 | 2026-07-22 |
| 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 | 11k stars, 1.2M PyPI/wk |