Granite Guardian vs Tisane API

Granite Guardian adds safeguards for prompts, responses, and agent workflows around AI models. It detects hallucinations, harmful content, bias, jailbreaking attempts, and retrieval-augmented generation quality issues. RAG checks cover context relevance, response groundedness, and answer relevance. Function calls can be assessed for syntactic and semantic hallucinations, including invalid calls or fabricated information. Granite Guardian 4.1 offers thinking mode with reasoning traces and non-thinking mode with a judgment score; the 4.1 8B model accepts user-defined criteria such as formatting, length, and domain instructions. Models use the Apache 2.0 license for research and commercial use and can run in vLLM or listed providers including watsonx.ai, Ollama, and LM Studio. IBM says they are trained and tested only on English data and should be used strictly in the prescribed scoring mode.

Tisane API is a text moderation service that returns human-readable reasons for its decisions. Its RESTful API returns detailed results in milliseconds, and the product handles algospeak, slang, and misspellings. Analysis can be tailored to contexts such as usernames and search queries. Tisane can translate foreign content while preserving its original profanities and slurs, and it can also identify topics, entities, and sentiment. For gaming, its moderation is described as distinguishing in-game violence references from criminal activity and detecting scammers, groomers, and trolls. Deployments include public cloud, on-premise installation, and Tisane Embedded as an in-process library; the pricing page also offers on-premise deployment for privacy or air-gap requirements. Listed integrations include plugins for Slack, Minecraft, Webex, Discord, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as Zapier, Make, and n8n. The free Community plan includes 50,000 requests with a limit of 10 hits per minute and no technical support. Paid plans start at $99 a month.