Mistral Moderation API vs Prisma AIRS AI Runtime Security API

Mistral Moderation API

Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, and the Experiment plan needs no card. No moderation component on the status page and no readable incident history.

Prisma AIRS AI Runtime Security API

A public OpenAPI document, ten detection types in one call, tool-call scanning, a remote MCP server, rotating API keys and OAuth roles suit teams already on Strata Cloud Manager. Access needs Software NGFW credits bought through sales, with no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and payloads flagged malicious are kept for up to 10 years.

Mistral Moderation API

1. Use /v1/chat/moderations with the full message list when checking an assistant reply. The raw endpoint has no context
2. Read category_scores and set your own threshold per category. The booleans use Mistral's cut-offs
3. Pin mistral-moderation-2603. The 2411 model was retired on 31 March 2026
4. Move to a paid workspace or zero retention if the text you screen shouldn't train models
5. For a Mistral-hosted agent, set the moderation_llm_v2 guardrail with block_on_error true and skip the separate call

Prisma AIRS AI Runtime Security API

1. Send x-pan-token and an ai_profile with profile_name or profile_id on every scan. Both come from Strata Cloud Manager, and a key works only in its own region
2. Put earlier turns first in contents. Only the last element is scanned, and the rest is context
3. Read action (allow or block) and category, then check timeout and error, because a detector that failed is reported in errors with a 200
4. Keep synchronous requests under 2 MB and asynchronous ones under 5 MB and 25 items, and fetch at most 5 scan or report IDs a call, 10 calls a minute
5. For MCP, connect to /mcp on the regional host with x-pan-token and x-pan-profile headers, and call pan_inline_scan yourself before and after generation