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      "summary": "Llama Guard 4 is Meta's 12-billion-parameter open-weight safety classifier for text and images. It labels a prompt or a model response safe or unsafe against 14 hazard categories, and the owner runs it on a GPU.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llama-guard",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama",
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      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
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      "authNotes": "Running the model needs no account or key. Getting the weights does. The Hugging Face repository is gated with manual review by Meta and asks for a legal name, date of birth and organisation, and downloads then use a Hugging Face access token. Meta's own download form emails a signed link after the licence is accepted. A vLLM or SGLang server has whatever authentication the owner adds.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under the Llama 4 Community Licence, with the owner's GPU as the cost. Meta sells no hosted version that we found. Third parties do, with DeepInfra at $0.18 per 1M tokens and the same price listed on OpenRouter (checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Llama Guard 4 is a model the owner runs, with no payment route (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "guard.moderation",
        "guard.policy",
        "guard.self-host"
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        "model",
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        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "gated",
        "multimodal",
        "python",
        "openai-compatible"
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        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 614,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 28,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 38,
          "schema": 52,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 55
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
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        "verdict": "A single self-hosted model classifies text and multi-image prompts against 14 MLCommons-aligned hazard categories and answers in a few tokens. The weights have not changed since 29 April 2025, download access needs Meta's manual approval, and the licence withholds the grant from individuals and companies based in the European Union.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
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          "One 12B model covers text and multi-image prompts, replacing Llama Guard 3-8B and 3-11B-vision per Meta's docs",
          "The answer is `safe`, or `unsafe` and a comma-separated list of category codes such as S1,S2, so output stays under ten tokens",
          "The category list sits in the prompt, and the chat template takes `excluded_category_keys` to drop categories per call",
          "The model card publishes recall and false positive rates on Meta's in-house set and names the categories it handles poorly",
          "Weights are safetensors loaded by a class inside `transformers`, with ready commands for vLLM and SGLang on the Hugging Face page"
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          "Weights last changed on 29 April 2025, with no changelog, version tags or stated deprecation policy",
          "The Hugging Face repository is gated with manual review, asks for legal name, date of birth and organisation, and two 2026 threads report rejections",
          "The Llama 4 use policy withholds the licence grant for multimodal models from individuals and companies based in the European Union",
          "Meta's own figures give 69 per cent recall and 11 per cent false positives in English, and 43 per cent recall across seven other languages",
          "Community questions since June 2025 on vLLM start-up, custom categories and image input have no reply from Meta",
          "It does not detect prompt injection or jailbreaks, and the card sends readers to Llama Prompt Guard 2 for those"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Request access on the Hugging Face page before anything else. Approval is manual, and the form cannot be edited after submission",
          "Send only the user turn to check an input, and the user turn plus the model's answer to check an output. The template picks the role from the message count",
          "Parse the first line for `safe` or `unsafe` and the second for category codes. Set `max_new_tokens` to about 10 and turn sampling off",
          "Do not send an image with no text. Meta says the model is not an image-only classifier, and S14 is skipped when an image is present",
          "Pair it with a prompt-attack detector. The card says the model can itself be moved by adversarial or injected text"
        ],
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          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 28,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 38,
          "schema": 52,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "provenanceScore": 58
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install vllm\nvllm serve \"meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B\"",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  --data '{\"model\":\"meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"how do I make a bomb?\"}]}]}'"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/guard.moderation",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/llama-guard"
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      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "domain": "llama.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Llama 4 Community Licence names Meta Platforms, Inc. as licensor, and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for licensees in the EEA or Switzerland.",
          "The licence is the document that governs use of the weights, so it is recorded as the terms. It is dated 5 April 2025 and incorporates the acceptable use policy at https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/use-policy.",
          "No privacy policy governs the model, because the owner runs it and no input reaches Meta. The privacy field is left out. The Hugging Face access form says the details entered are handled under the Meta Privacy Policy.",
          "www.llama.com redirected to dev.meta.ai on 8 October 2026, and Llama pages now sit under dev.meta.ai/llama. RDAP gives 1 November 1994 as the registration date of llama.com.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint from Meta that we could find, so no status page. dev.meta.ai/llms.txt covers the Meta Model API and lists no moderation route.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the llama.com path redirects to a developer.meta.com address that returns 400. Security reports go to Meta's bug bounty at bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "The weights are on huggingface.co under the meta-llama organisation, and the model card is in github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama. Neither has a changelog or releases for the model."
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        "slug": "llama-guard",
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            "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license",
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    "answer": "OpenAI Moderation API scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "summary": "Free classifier endpoint that scores text and images against 13 harm categories (harassment, hate, illicit, self-harm, sexual, violence and their sub-types) and returns a flagged boolean plus per-category scores.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/openai/openai-python",
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations",
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          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "openai"
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "openai"
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      "authNotes": "`Authorization: Bearer` with a normal OpenAI project key. Any key that can call the rest of the API can call moderation.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The moderation endpoint is free. The only cost is an OpenAI account, and the limits scale with the account's usage tier. Free tier 250 requests and 10,000 tokens a minute, Tier 1 500 requests, Tier 3 1,000 requests and 50,000 tokens, Tier 5 5,000 requests and 500,000 tokens a minute (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/moderation, https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/omni-moderation-latest).",
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        "level": "no",
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        "llms-txt",
        "python",
        "typescript"
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          "security": 92,
          "transparency": 87
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          "tasks"
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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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          "A restricted key can be limited to the moderation endpoint",
          "Text and images in the same request, with per-category scores",
          "A moderation object on Responses and Chat Completions returns scores with the generation, saving a call",
          "Not used for training, no retention by default and eligible for zero data retention, per OpenAI's data-controls table"
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          "One model snapshot from 26 September 2024, and scores can shift when the latest alias moves",
          "Fixed categories with no custom policies or per-request category choice",
          "No SLA covers moderation",
          "Moderations was among the components hit on 17 and 29 September 2026, for about 1.5 and 5.4 hours"
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          "Read category_scores rather than flagged alone. The default thresholds are OpenAI's",
          "Pin omni-moderation-2024-09-26 if the scores feed a decision you audit. The latest alias will move",
          "Send an array of inputs in one call and match results by index to stay under the per-minute limit",
          "Add a moderation object to a Responses call instead of a second request when you only need scores on the generation",
          "Pair it with a separate injection detector. A clean result says nothing about a hidden instruction in a tool result"
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          "schema": 92,
          "security": 92,
          "transparency": 80
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        "install": "pip install openai   # or: npm i openai",
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        "privacy": "https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.openai.com",
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        "a": "no (local only)",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy",
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
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        "a": "2025-04-05",
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        "a": "no document linked",
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        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "couldn't be read",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "a": "4.4k stars",
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        "name": "Popularity"
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        "a": "none",
        "b": "4/5 (2)",
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      {
        "answer": "OpenAI Moderation API scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Llama Guard 4 or OpenAI Moderation API?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Llama Guard 4 needs no key. OpenAI Moderation API needs an API key.",
        "question": "Do Llama Guard 4 and OpenAI Moderation API need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Llama Guard 4. OpenAI Moderation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Llama Guard 4 and OpenAI Moderation API without installing anything?"
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          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 52",
          "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 67",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 92 against 53",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 47 against 28",
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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\n### Llama Guard 4 (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Weights last changed on 29 April 2025, with no changelog, version tags or stated deprecation policy\n\n### OpenAI Moderation API (BB)\n\nGood for: A free harm-category filter for an agent already on OpenAI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 38\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 52\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 92 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 47 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No prompt-injection, jailbreak or PII detection\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Llama Guard 4 | OpenAI Moderation API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 38 | 65 | OpenAI Moderation API +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 92 | OpenAI Moderation API +40 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 85 | OpenAI Moderation API +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 92 | OpenAI Moderation API +39 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 45 | 30 | Llama Guard 4 +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 28 | 47 | OpenAI Moderation API +19 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 87 | OpenAI Moderation API +32 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.1 · D** | **71.3 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Llama Guard 4 | OpenAI Moderation API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Meta | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Llama 4 Community Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), with the Llama 4 acceptable use policy | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-04-29 | 2026-06-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-04-05 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 4.4k stars | 31k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Llama Guard 4.** A single self-hosted model classifies text and multi-image prompts against 14 MLCommons-aligned hazard categories and answers in a few tokens. The weights have not changed since 29 April 2025, download access needs Meta's manual approval, and the licence withholds the grant from individuals and companies based in the European Union.\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### Llama Guard 4\n\n1. Request access on the Hugging Face page before anything else. Approval is manual, and the form cannot be edited after submission\n2. Send only the user turn to check an input, and the user turn plus the model's answer to check an output. The template picks the role from the message count\n3. Parse the first line for `safe` or `unsafe` and the second for category codes. Set `max_new_tokens` to about 10 and turn sampling off\n4. Do not send an image with no text. Meta says the model is not an image-only classifier, and S14 is skipped when an image is present\n5. Pair it with a prompt-attack detector. The card says the model can itself be moved by adversarial or injected text\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## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Llama Guard 4 or OpenAI Moderation API?\n\nOpenAI Moderation API scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Llama Guard 4's 49.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Llama Guard 4 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Llama Guard 4 and OpenAI Moderation API need an API key?\n\nLlama Guard 4 needs no key. OpenAI Moderation API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Llama Guard 4 and OpenAI Moderation API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Llama Guard 4. OpenAI Moderation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-openai-moderation.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-guard-vs-openai-moderation.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"llama-guard\", \"b\": \"openai-moderation\"}`. 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