Tech riderRev. 7 Oct 2026
PII Firewall
- 1Runs onLinux, self-hosted
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Deploymentself hosted
- 4Prompt injection defenseNo
- 5PII detectionYes
- 6Jailbreak detectionNo
- 7Custom policiesYes
- 8SDK languagesPython
8 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: pii-firewall.com

Overview
PII Firewall is ranked #15 of 21 in AI guardrail software on Specifiction. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.
PII Firewall plans and pricing
All plansOpen source Free Apache 2.0 · Python package · regex-only install needs no ML dependencies pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
Compared on AI guardrail software
- Deployment
- self_hostedpii-firewall.com
- Prompt injection defense
- Nopii-firewall.com
- PII detection
- Yespii-firewall.com
- Jailbreak detection
- Nopii-firewall.com
- Custom policies
- Yespii-firewall.com
- SDK languages
- Pythonpii-firewall.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Intercepts and anonymizes PII before it reaches an LLM, then restores original values in the response.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Domain profiles
- Built-in profiles include healthcare, finance, legal, generic, and custom.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Detection
- Detection backends include regex, Presidio, GLiNER, Transformers, OpenAI Privacy Filter, hybrid, and custom options.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- PII handling
- Six disposition actions are supported: keep, pseudonymize, redact, generalize, mask, and hash.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The product says it supports 55+ languages with automatic language detection and locale-specific patterns.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Examples cover OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, FastAPI, streaming transport, Ollama, LiteLLM, and arbitrary HTTP LLM endpoints.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Data controls
- The maker describes tenant-scoped token mappings and a forget operation that deletes vault mappings for a thread or case.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Audit
- Each call produces a trace with detected entity types, confidence scores, and applied replacements.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- License
- The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Install
- The maker provides a Python package install; the base regex-only install has no ML dependencies.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker highlights healthcare, finance, and legal use cases, including clinical NLP, fintech support automation, and legal document review.github.com · 7 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The maker says the HASH action is for analytics workflows and is not used in built-in presets.pii-firewall.com · 7 Oct 2026
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Where it ranks on Specifiction
- Best AI Guardrail Software in 2026#15 of 21
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Sources
- pii-firewall.com· checked 7 Oct 2026
- github.com/neretj/pii-firewall· checked 7 Oct 2026




