{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "mistral-moderation", "name": "Mistral Moderation API", "vendor": "Mistral AI", "vendorUrl": "https://mistral.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "Free classifier from Mistral that scores raw text or a whole conversation against 11 categories, including jailbreaking, PII and off-policy advice (health, financial, legal) alongside the usual harm classes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-moderation.json", "dns": "mistral-moderation.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/mistralai/client-python", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mistralai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mistralai/mistralai" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`Authorization: Bearer` with the same key as the rest of the Mistral API. Rate and spending caps are set per workspace in the console.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Mistral Moderation 2 (mistral-moderation-2603) is listed as free ($0 per million tokens) on the API pricing page, under moderation and safety models. Rate limits are set per Organization and shown in the Admin Panel (https://docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing, https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-moderation-26-03).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 769, "npmWeekly": 8446363, "pypiWeekly": 3667687, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai/studio/safety-moderation", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "guard.moderation", "guard.pii", "guard.policy" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "free", "eu", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 644, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 43, "schema": 88, "security": 70, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-05-12. The `mistralai` 2.4.6 package on PyPI, one of this listing's two official SDKs, ran a credential-harvesting script on import for about three hours, and `@mistralai/mistralai` 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 on npm were replaced too. Mistral published advisory MAI-2026-002, removed the packages and closed its investigation on 14 May. Fixed and documented, so 3 points, as the other Mistral API listings carry for the same advisory (https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/security-advisories/MAI-2026-002). -3", "2026-10-20 to 2026-11-01. Minor releases of both official SDKs list \"Breaking changes\" with no advance notice found. Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 (20 October) change the `type` field in `classifiers.moderate_chat()` (`moderateChat()` in TypeScript), and later 3.x minors change or remove other fields. One term at the floor, as the other Mistral API listings carry for the same SDKs (https://github.com/mistralai/client-python/blob/main/RELEASES.md). -3" ], "verdict": "Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, with 11 categories including jailbreaking and PII, and the Experiment plan needs no card. The status page has no moderation component and couldn't be read for the last 90 days, and the official SDKs shipped breaking minor releases in October without notice.", "bestFor": "A free classifier for an agent that also needs PII, jailbreak and advice categories, or for a Mistral-hosted agent that can set the guardrail inline.", "strengths": [ "Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, and the Experiment plan needs no card", "Jailbreaking, PII, health, financial and legal-advice categories as well as harm classes", "Chat endpoint judges the last turn with the conversation as context, with a 128k-token window", "Error glossary gives backoff and Retry-After guidance, and both moderation endpoints are on the zero retention list", "Custom per-category thresholds and block_on_error as a guardrail on chat completions, conversations and agents" ], "weaknesses": [ "No moderation component on the status page, and its history couldn't be read for the last 90 days", "No custom topics, blocklists or redaction, and jailbreaking is a single category score", "Supported languages aren't listed", "Data sent on the free Experiment plan may be used for training", "Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 changed `moderate_chat()` in minor releases with no advance notice" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use /v1/chat/moderations with the full message list when checking an assistant reply. The raw endpoint has no context", "Read category_scores and set your own threshold per category. The booleans use Mistral's cut-offs", "Pin mistral-moderation-2603. The 2411 model was retired on 30 June 2026", "Pin the SDK version. 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"https://status.mistral.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/changelogs", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Same entity, terms and status page as the rest of the Mistral API." ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.json", "live": { "slug": "mistral-moderation", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:40.21630661Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 167, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 72, "p95ms24h": 162, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7910, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 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(C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "shieldgemma", "name": "ShieldGemma", "vendor": "Google DeepMind", "vendorUrl": "https://gemma.ai/models/shieldgemma.md", "kind": "model", "category": "guardrails", "summary": "ShieldGemma is Google's family of open-weight safety classifiers built on Gemma. ShieldGemma 1 (2B, 9B, 27B) scores English text against hate, harassment, dangerous and sexual content policies, and ShieldGemma 2 (4B) scores images. The owner runs them.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shieldgemma.json", "dns": "shieldgemma.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/collections/google/shieldgemma-67d130ef8da6af884072a789", "license": "Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-2b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-9b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-27b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/shieldgemma-2-4b-it" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "shieldgemma" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No key is needed to run the model. Google's files on Hugging Face are gated, so a person logs in, reviews the Gemma licence and accepts it, and the Hub page says requests are approved immediately. Kaggle also needs an account. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account. Any authentication on the server is the owner's to add (checked 2026-11-06).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under the Gemma Terms of Use, with the owner's hardware as the cost. Google sells no hosted ShieldGemma that we found, and the Hub's API lists no inference provider for any of the four repositories (checked 2026-11-06).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights the owner downloads and runs, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://gemma.ai/models/shieldgemma/model-card-v1.md", "llmsTxt": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "guard.moderation", "guard.policy", "guard.self-host" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "gated", "multimodal", "python", "ollama" ], "lastRelease": "2025-04-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 921, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 52, "reliability": 46, "schema": 56, "security": 53, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance.", "bestFor": "Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.", "strengths": [ "Scoring mode returns the probability of `Yes` per policy from one forward pass, so the caller sets its own threshold", "Four sizes, ShieldGemma 1 at 2B, 9B and 27B for text and ShieldGemma 2 at 4B for images", "Cards give the exact guideline wording for each harm type, separately for input and output filtering, in Markdown listed in gemma.ai/llms.txt", "Google accounts replied to every Hub thread we sampled, the newest on 22 March 2026", "Safetensors only, loaded through Transformers classes with no remote code, and Ollama's library carries ShieldGemma 1" ], "weaknesses": [ "No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy", "ShieldGemma 1 covers four harm types in English only, and neither generation has a prompt-injection or jailbreak category", "Each call checks one policy, so screening all four text harm types takes four passes", "Google's files need a Hugging Face or Kaggle login and licence acceptance before download", "The Gemma Terms of Use add a prohibited use policy and let Google restrict usage remotely" ], "agentNotes": [ "Copy the prompt pattern and guideline text from the card word for word, since the card says the model is highly sensitive to policy wording", "Read the `Yes` and `No` logits and apply softmax for a score, rather than generating text, and choose a threshold for your use", "Use the prompt-only guidelines to filter user input and the prompt-response guidelines to filter model output", "Run one call per policy, and pair it with a separate prompt-injection filter, since ShieldGemma has no injection category", "Accept the Gemma licence on Hugging Face with a person's account before an agent can download Google's files" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 52, "reliability": 46, "schema": 56, "security": 53, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 58, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U transformers[accelerate]" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/guard.moderation", "tool": "https://letme.dev/shieldgemma" }, "sameCompany": [ "embeddinggemma-2", "embeddinggemma-300m", "diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-31b-it", "gemma-4-e2b-it", "gemma-4-e4b-it" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai; the Gemma Terms of Use are Google's and the cards name Google as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://gemma.ai/resources/terms.md", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Nothing is hosted, so the Gemma Terms of Use stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "RDAP for gemma.ai, read on 6 November 2026, gives a registration date of 16 December 2017 and Google LLC as registrant, with MarkMonitor as registrar.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered with the site's HTML page, not a security.txt, on 6 November 2026. Google's company-wide security.txt at www.google.com is valid until 1 April 2030 and points to its vulnerability reward programme.", "gemma.ai/robots.txt and ai.google.dev/robots.txt allow our reader. huggingface.co/robots.txt allows all paths, and the Hub's model API was used for file metadata and discussion authors only.", "The Hugging Face README files sit behind the gate (raw files answered 401 without a login), so the cards were read from gemma.ai and the public model pages." ], "score": 58 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.json", "live": { "slug": "shieldgemma", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:22.210945228Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:54.388179097Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:22.210945228Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 43, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "mistral-moderation", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Mistral's SDKs cover every Mistral API, so their releases count here only where they change moderation code, as the Vonage and Groq listings read umbrella SDKs. Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 (20 October 2026, per each repository's RELEASES.md) change the `type` field in `classifiers.moderate_chat()`, 15 days before this check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, five SDK releases change the moderation calls, Python 3.0.0 (28 September, `mistral_mcp` across the classifier operations), Python 3.1.0 (6 October, `resource` variants in `moderate_chat()`), TypeScript 3.0.0 (7 October, `moderateChat()` inputs) and Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 (20 October), each counted in full since none is packaging-only, dependency-only or documentation-only, while the changelog has no moderation entry (20). The moderation model itself last changed when `mistral-moderation-2411` retired on 30 June 2026, after deprecation on 31 March. Dated changelog and docs and support through the console (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, `mistralai` 3.7.0 and `@mistralai/mistralai` 3.5.0 (1 November) (15). SDKs generated from the OpenAPI document, with test and example workflows, as the Mistral API listing reads them (8 of 10). 30+20+10+15+8 = 83.", "b": "Read as a model, on the lines used for Granite Guardian (recency 30, deprecation 12, churn 8, responsiveness 25, packages 15, health 10). The newest file change is ShieldGemma 2 on 4 April 2025, 19 months before the check, and ShieldGemma 1 last changed in September 2024 (0 of 30). No deprecation policy. Both generations stay downloadable, and the ai.google.dev page was marked deprecated with a pointer to gemma.ai without dates for the models (3 of 12). Two generations in 2024 and 2025, each in its own repository, none replaced in place (6 of 8). Google accounts (members of Google's Gemma organisations on the Hub) answered every thread we sampled on the 2B, 9B and ShieldGemma 2 pages, from August 2024 to 22 March 2026, but leave most threads open (16 of 25). Transformers, Keras and Ollama's library load it (12 of 15). No CI, and Ollama's library build was last updated 2 years ago (3 of 10). 0 + 3 + 6 + 16 + 12 + 3 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 32, "category": "schema", "leads": "mistral-moderation", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml, per the 1 November reading on the Mistral API listing (25). llms.txt and Markdown twins of every page, re-read on 4 November (10). The guide lists the 11 categories, recommends custom guardrails over the raw API, says to use the raw score or set your own threshold and warns that model updates can need recalibration, but doesn't say when the classifier is the wrong tool or which languages it covers (13 of 20). model and input are typed, input takes a string or an array, and the chat endpoint takes typed messages (12 of 15). Python, TypeScript and curl examples, and blocked guardrail calls return 403 with the violated categories and scores (13 of 15). Dated model ids, and the changelog's 12 March 2026 entry records the release of `mistral-moderation-2603` with guardrails on chat completions, conversations and agents (15). 25+10+13+12+13+15 = 88.", "b": "Read for a model the owner serves. There is no specification of its own. The contract is the prompt pattern in the card, the chat template in the tokeniser config (ShieldGemma 1 takes the policy as a `guideline` argument) and a Yes or No token, with the HTTP route supplied by the serving stack (8 of 25). gemma.ai/llms.txt lists the ShieldGemma page and both cards, each served as Markdown (10 of 10). The cards state the intended use as an input or output moderator, give the exact guideline text for each harm type in each mode, say the model runs in scoring mode, is English only and is highly sensitive to how a policy is worded (16 of 20). Fixed harm types and a binary answer, with the policy as free text (10 of 15). A Transformers snippet for each generation and a Keras notebook. No failure modes or error cases are documented (8 of 15). Two named generations with no changelog, and the ai.google.dev page is marked deprecated in favour of gemma.ai (4 of 15). 8 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 4 = 56." }, "scores": { "a": 88, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 26, "category": "transparency", "leads": "mistral-moderation", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under commercial terms with a French legal entity, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Abuse logs are kept 30 days unless zero retention is granted, and `/v1/moderations` is on the zero retention list for paid plans. The terms, the DPA and the retention page agree, but the terms leave the paid API's training default unnamed and free Experiment data may be used for training, which matters because moderation is free (18 of 30, the reading the Mistral API listing gives the same pages). Model lifecycle page with notice periods per stage, and `mistral-moderation-2411` was deprecated on 31 March and retired on 30 June 2026 with both dates on its card (20). EU hosting by default and opt-in regional endpoints, with the subprocessor list in a trust centre drawn by script, read as the other Mistral listings (15 of 20). 15+18+20+15 = 68.", "b": "The weights are under the Gemma Terms of Use, not an OSI licence. They carry distribution conditions, the Prohibited Use Policy and a clause that lets Google restrict usage remotely where it believes the terms are breached. The terms are dated (1 April 2026) with earlier versions archived (15 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware, so no privacy statement applies. ShieldGemma 1 was fine-tuned on synthetic internal data and public datasets described in a technical report, and ShieldGemma 2 on a WebLI subset and synthetic images with CSAM filtering. No data is released (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated model retirements (5 of 20). The weights carry no telemetry of their own, with no statement either way, and downloads go through Hugging Face, Kaggle or Ollama (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 54 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "security", "leads": "mistral-moderation", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Read on the same pages as the other Mistral listings. Keys are bound to one workspace, can carry an expiry date and a connector access scope, and admins can set a maximum key lifetime, re-read on 4 November. A key can't be limited to moderation (26 of 30). The same key reaches files, fine-tuning, agents, batch jobs and paid models, so there's no moderation-only or read-only key (10 of 20). A jailbreaking category in the classifier, one score rather than a document-aware injection check (12 of 15). Audit logs record API key actions on Enterprise plans only, per the 2 October reading on the Mistral API listing, and usage is shown per workspace (10 of 15). security.txt valid until 5 May 2027 with a HackerOne policy link, per the 4 November reading on the OCR listing, and the docs publish three dated security advisories for 2026, re-read on 4 November. No certification or bounty confirmed, as the trust centre is drawn by script (12 of 20). 26+10+12+10+12 = 70.", "b": "Read as a model the owner runs, on the model lines used for Granite Guardian, with retention and training in place of the read-only line. No key is needed to run it. Google's files need a Hugging Face login and licence acceptance, approved immediately, so there is a token to download but no secret at run time (13 of 30). Self-hosted, so inputs stay on the owner's hardware and nothing reaches Google, though no Google page says so (15 of 20). It reads untrusted text by design. The card says the model is highly sensitive to the policy wording and may behave unpredictably with ambiguous language, and gives no prompt-injection guidance (6 of 15). No call log of its own, though each call returns a score (5 of 15). Weights are safetensors only and load through Transformers classes with no remote code. Google's security.txt is valid and points to its reward programme, and there is no model-specific security page or advisory record (14 of 20). 13 + 15 + 6 + 5 + 14 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 70, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "payments", "leads": "shieldgemma", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Mistral Moderation 2 is listed as free ($0 per million tokens) on the pricing page, which moved to docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing, re-read on 4 November (20). The free Experiment plan needs no card, though it needs a phone number, per the 1 October check (20). A person signs up in a browser and verifies a phone (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.", "b": "Self-hosted rule. Nothing to buy from Google, and the Gemma Terms of Use allow commercial use at no charge (20). Free to run with no card (20). Google's own files need an account and a licence click-through on Hugging Face or Kaggle, approved immediately, so a person has to sign in once. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account, and ShieldGemma 2 has none (12 of 20). No payment protocol (0). No hosted ShieldGemma from Google or an inference provider was found. 20 + 20 + 12 + 0 = 52." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 52 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mistral AI", "b": "Google DeepMind", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-03-01", "b": "2025-04-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-25", "b": "2026-04-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "769 stars, 8.4M npm/wk, 3.7M PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Mistral Moderation API scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Mistral Moderation API or ShieldGemma?" }, { "answer": "Mistral Moderation API needs an API key. ShieldGemma needs no key.", "question": "Do Mistral Moderation API and ShieldGemma need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Mistral Moderation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations. No hosted endpoint is listed for ShieldGemma.", "question": "Can an agent call Mistral Moderation API and ShieldGemma without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 53", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 54" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A free classifier for an agent that also needs PII, jailbreak and advice categories, or for a Mistral-hosted agent that can set the guardrail inline.", "slug": "mistral-moderation", "watchFor": "No moderation component on the status page, and its history couldn't be read for the last 90 days" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 40" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "No incidents deducted, where Mistral Moderation API loses 6 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.", "slug": "shieldgemma", "watchFor": "No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy" } ], "history": { "mistral-moderation": [ { "causes": [ "evidence", "correction", "event" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": 2.2, "from": 58.4, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 60.6, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.2, "from": 58.6, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 58.4, "toGrade": "C" } ], "shieldgemma": null }, "job": { "capability": "guard.moderation", "name": "Content moderation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-mistral-moderation.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock Guardrails vs Mistral Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-vs-mistral-moderation" }, { "json": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentgate-vs-shieldgemma" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamafirewall-vs-shieldgemma.json", "title": "LlamaFirewall vs ShieldGemma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamafirewall-vs-shieldgemma" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamafirewall-vs-mistral-moderation.json", "title": "LlamaFirewall vs Mistral Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamafirewall-vs-mistral-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-presidio-vs-mistral-moderation.json", "title": "Presidio vs Mistral Moderation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-presidio-vs-mistral-moderation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-presidio-vs-shieldgemma.json", "title": "Presidio vs ShieldGemma", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-presidio-vs-shieldgemma" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 3, "edge": "shieldgemma", "key": "reliability", "mistral-moderation": 43, "name": "Reliability", "shieldgemma": 46, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "mistral-moderation", "key": "schema", "mistral-moderation": 88, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "shieldgemma": 56, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "mistral-moderation", "key": "ergonomics", "mistral-moderation": 75, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "shieldgemma": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "mistral-moderation", "key": "security", "mistral-moderation": 70, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "shieldgemma": 53, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "shieldgemma", "key": "payments", "mistral-moderation": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "shieldgemma": 52, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 43, "edge": "mistral-moderation", "key": "maintenance", "mistral-moderation": 83, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "shieldgemma": 40, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 26, "edge": "mistral-moderation", "key": "transparency", "mistral-moderation": 80, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "shieldgemma": 54, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Mistral Moderation API scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do content moderation.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "mistral-moderation": "Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, with 11 categories including jailbreaking and PII, and the Experiment plan needs no card. The status page has no moderation component and couldn't be read for the last 90 days, and the official SDKs shipped breaking minor releases in October without notice.", "shieldgemma": "Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma.min.md" }, "markdown": "Mistral Moderation API scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do content moderation.\n\n- Mistral Moderation API: grade C, 60.6/100, rank #644 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-moderation.json\n- ShieldGemma: grade C, 54/100, rank #921 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shieldgemma.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shieldgemma.json\n- Best guardrails and safety filters for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/guardrails/index.md\n- All 155 guardrails comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guardrails/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Mistral Moderation API (C)\n\nGood for: A free classifier for an agent that also needs PII, jailbreak and advice categories, or for a Mistral-hosted agent that can set the guardrail inline.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No moderation component on the status page, and its history couldn't be read for the last 90 days\n\n### ShieldGemma (C)\n\nGood for: Policy-specific content moderation of English text input or output, or of images, on the owner's hardware, with a probability to threshold.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- No incidents deducted, where Mistral Moderation API loses 6 points for them\n\nWatch for: No file change since 4 April 2025 (ShieldGemma 2) and September 2024 (ShieldGemma 1), with no changelog or deprecation policy\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Mistral Moderation API +43\n\n- Mistral Moderation API (83): Mistral's SDKs cover every Mistral API, so their releases count here only where they change moderation code, as the Vonage and Groq listings read umbrella SDKs. Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 (20 October 2026, per each repository's RELEASES.md) change the `type` field in `classifiers.moderate_chat()`, 15 days before this check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, five SDK releases change the moderation calls, Python 3.0.0 (28 September, `mistral_mcp` across the classifier operations), Python 3.1.0 (6 October, `resource` variants in `moderate_chat()`), TypeScript 3.0.0 (7 October, `moderateChat()` inputs) and Python 3.3.0 and TypeScript 3.1.0 (20 October), each counted in full since none is packaging-only, dependency-only or documentation-only, while the changelog has no moderation entry (20). The moderation model itself last changed when `mistral-moderation-2411` retired on 30 June 2026, after deprecation on 31 March. Dated changelog and docs and support through the console (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, `mistralai` 3.7.0 and `@mistralai/mistralai` 3.5.0 (1 November) (15). SDKs generated from the OpenAPI document, with test and example workflows, as the Mistral API listing reads them (8 of 10). 30+20+10+15+8 = 83.\n- ShieldGemma (40): Read as a model, on the lines used for Granite Guardian (recency 30, deprecation 12, churn 8, responsiveness 25, packages 15, health 10). The newest file change is ShieldGemma 2 on 4 April 2025, 19 months before the check, and ShieldGemma 1 last changed in September 2024 (0 of 30). No deprecation policy. Both generations stay downloadable, and the ai.google.dev page was marked deprecated with a pointer to gemma.ai without dates for the models (3 of 12). Two generations in 2024 and 2025, each in its own repository, none replaced in place (6 of 8). Google accounts (members of Google's Gemma organisations on the Hub) answered every thread we sampled on the 2B, 9B and ShieldGemma 2 pages, from August 2024 to 22 March 2026, but leave most threads open (16 of 25). Transformers, Keras and Ollama's library load it (12 of 15). No CI, and Ollama's library build was last updated 2 years ago (3 of 10). 0 + 3 + 6 + 16 + 12 + 3 = 40.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Mistral Moderation API +32\n\n- Mistral Moderation API (88): OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml, per the 1 November reading on the Mistral API listing (25). llms.txt and Markdown twins of every page, re-read on 4 November (10). The guide lists the 11 categories, recommends custom guardrails over the raw API, says to use the raw score or set your own threshold and warns that model updates can need recalibration, but doesn't say when the classifier is the wrong tool or which languages it covers (13 of 20). model and input are typed, input takes a string or an array, and the chat endpoint takes typed messages (12 of 15). Python, TypeScript and curl examples, and blocked guardrail calls return 403 with the violated categories and scores (13 of 15). Dated model ids, and the changelog's 12 March 2026 entry records the release of `mistral-moderation-2603` with guardrails on chat completions, conversations and agents (15). 25+10+13+12+13+15 = 88.\n- ShieldGemma (56): Read for a model the owner serves. There is no specification of its own. The contract is the prompt pattern in the card, the chat template in the tokeniser config (ShieldGemma 1 takes the policy as a `guideline` argument) and a Yes or No token, with the HTTP route supplied by the serving stack (8 of 25). gemma.ai/llms.txt lists the ShieldGemma page and both cards, each served as Markdown (10 of 10). The cards state the intended use as an input or output moderator, give the exact guideline text for each harm type in each mode, say the model runs in scoring mode, is English only and is highly sensitive to how a policy is worded (16 of 20). Fixed harm types and a binary answer, with the policy as free text (10 of 15). A Transformers snippet for each generation and a Keras notebook. No failure modes or error cases are documented (8 of 15). Two named generations with no changelog, and the ai.google.dev page is marked deprecated in favour of gemma.ai (4 of 15). 8 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 4 = 56.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Mistral Moderation API +26\n\n- Mistral Moderation API (80): Closed service under commercial terms with a French legal entity, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Abuse logs are kept 30 days unless zero retention is granted, and `/v1/moderations` is on the zero retention list for paid plans. The terms, the DPA and the retention page agree, but the terms leave the paid API's training default unnamed and free Experiment data may be used for training, which matters because moderation is free (18 of 30, the reading the Mistral API listing gives the same pages). Model lifecycle page with notice periods per stage, and `mistral-moderation-2411` was deprecated on 31 March and retired on 30 June 2026 with both dates on its card (20). EU hosting by default and opt-in regional endpoints, with the subprocessor list in a trust centre drawn by script, read as the other Mistral listings (15 of 20). 15+18+20+15 = 68.\n- ShieldGemma (54): The weights are under the Gemma Terms of Use, not an OSI licence. They carry distribution conditions, the Prohibited Use Policy and a clause that lets Google restrict usage remotely where it believes the terms are breached. The terms are dated (1 April 2026) with earlier versions archived (15 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware, so no privacy statement applies. ShieldGemma 1 was fine-tuned on synthetic internal data and public datasets described in a technical report, and ShieldGemma 2 on a WebLI subset and synthetic images with CSAM filtering. No data is released (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated model retirements (5 of 20). The weights carry no telemetry of their own, with no statement either way, and downloads go through Hugging Face, Kaggle or Ollama (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Mistral Moderation API +17\n\n- Mistral Moderation API (70): Read on the same pages as the other Mistral listings. Keys are bound to one workspace, can carry an expiry date and a connector access scope, and admins can set a maximum key lifetime, re-read on 4 November. A key can't be limited to moderation (26 of 30). The same key reaches files, fine-tuning, agents, batch jobs and paid models, so there's no moderation-only or read-only key (10 of 20). A jailbreaking category in the classifier, one score rather than a document-aware injection check (12 of 15). Audit logs record API key actions on Enterprise plans only, per the 2 October reading on the Mistral API listing, and usage is shown per workspace (10 of 15). security.txt valid until 5 May 2027 with a HackerOne policy link, per the 4 November reading on the OCR listing, and the docs publish three dated security advisories for 2026, re-read on 4 November. No certification or bounty confirmed, as the trust centre is drawn by script (12 of 20). 26+10+12+10+12 = 70.\n- ShieldGemma (53): Read as a model the owner runs, on the model lines used for Granite Guardian, with retention and training in place of the read-only line. No key is needed to run it. Google's files need a Hugging Face login and licence acceptance, approved immediately, so there is a token to download but no secret at run time (13 of 30). Self-hosted, so inputs stay on the owner's hardware and nothing reaches Google, though no Google page says so (15 of 20). It reads untrusted text by design. The card says the model is highly sensitive to the policy wording and may behave unpredictably with ambiguous language, and gives no prompt-injection guidance (6 of 15). No call log of its own, though each call returns a score (5 of 15). Weights are safetensors only and load through Transformers classes with no remote code. Google's security.txt is valid and points to its reward programme, and there is no model-specific security page or advisory record (14 of 20). 13 + 15 + 6 + 5 + 14 = 53.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: ShieldGemma +12\n\n- Mistral Moderation API (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Mistral Moderation 2 is listed as free ($0 per million tokens) on the pricing page, which moved to docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing, re-read on 4 November (20). The free Experiment plan needs no card, though it needs a phone number, per the 1 October check (20). A person signs up in a browser and verifies a phone (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.\n- ShieldGemma (52): Self-hosted rule. Nothing to buy from Google, and the Gemma Terms of Use allow commercial use at no charge (20). Free to run with no card (20). Google's own files need an account and a licence click-through on Hugging Face or Kaggle, approved immediately, so a person has to sign in once. Ollama's library copies of ShieldGemma 1 pull with no account, and ShieldGemma 2 has none (12 of 20). No payment protocol (0). No hosted ShieldGemma from Google or an inference provider was found. 20 + 20 + 12 + 0 = 52.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mistral Moderation API | ShieldGemma | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 46 | ShieldGemma +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 56 | Mistral Moderation API +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 72 | Mistral Moderation API +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 53 | Mistral Moderation API +17 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 52 | ShieldGemma +12 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 40 | Mistral Moderation API +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 54 | Mistral Moderation API +26 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.6 · C** | **54 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mistral Moderation API | ShieldGemma |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Mistral AI | Google DeepMind |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Gemma Terms of Use (last modified 1 April 2026) with the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy. Not an OSI licence |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-03-01 | 2025-04-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | 2026-04-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 769 stars, 8.4M npm/wk, 3.7M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Mistral Moderation API\n\n- +2.2 on 4 November 2026: new evidence, correction, negative event\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### ShieldGemma\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Mistral Moderation API.** Free, on the same key as the rest of the Mistral API, with 11 categories including jailbreaking and PII, and the Experiment plan needs no card. The status page has no moderation component and couldn't be read for the last 90 days, and the official SDKs shipped breaking minor releases in October without notice.\n\n**ShieldGemma.** Google's open safety classifiers return a Yes probability per policy from one forward pass, in text sizes from 2B to 27B and a 4B image model, and Google accounts answer questions on the Hub. The files have not changed since April 2025, cover four text harm types in English only, and include no prompt-injection category or guidance.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mistral Moderation API\n\n1. Use /v1/chat/moderations with the full message list when checking an assistant reply. The raw endpoint has no context\n2. Read category_scores and set your own threshold per category. The booleans use Mistral's cut-offs\n3. Pin mistral-moderation-2603. The 2411 model was retired on 30 June 2026\n4. Pin the SDK version. Minor releases of `mistralai` and `@mistralai/mistralai` carry breaking changes\n5. For a Mistral-hosted call, set the moderation_llm_v2 guardrail with block_on_error true and skip the separate request\n\n### ShieldGemma\n\n1. Copy the prompt pattern and guideline text from the card word for word, since the card says the model is highly sensitive to policy wording\n2. Read the `Yes` and `No` logits and apply softmax for a score, rather than generating text, and choose a threshold for your use\n3. Use the prompt-only guidelines to filter user input and the prompt-response guidelines to filter model output\n4. Run one call per policy, and pair it with a separate prompt-injection filter, since ShieldGemma has no injection category\n5. Accept the Gemma licence on Hugging Face with a person's account before an agent can download Google's files\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mistral Moderation API or ShieldGemma?\n\nMistral Moderation API scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ShieldGemma's 54 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShieldGemma leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Mistral Moderation API and ShieldGemma need an API key?\n\nMistral Moderation API needs an API key. ShieldGemma needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Mistral Moderation API and ShieldGemma without installing anything?\n\nMistral Moderation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.ai/v1/moderations. No hosted endpoint is listed for ShieldGemma.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-moderation-vs-shieldgemma.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mistral-moderation\", \"b\": \"shieldgemma\"}`. 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