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Blocked · Jailbreak / prompt injection- Average F1 across 8 categories, highest we tested
- 63.7
- Average F1 across 8 categories, highest we tested
- With the Respan gateway
- $0
- With the Respan gateway
- Categories to block, from jailbreaks to self-harm
- 8
- Categories to block, from jailbreaks to self-harm
Catch prompt injections, jailbreaks, and unsafe content before they reach your models and tools.
Respan Guardrails run Span-01 inside the Respan gateway. Pick the categories to block, and matching requests never reach your model.
Every request your agent accepts is a chance for someone to hijack it.
Hosted classifiers charge for every check. The only other free option we tested, OpenAI Moderation, doesn't detect jailbreaks or prompt leaks.
Respan Guardrails check every gateway request with Span-01, before it reaches your model, at no extra cost.
- Jailbreak / prompt injection
- System prompt leak
- Unsafe content
- Hate / harassment
- Self-harm
- Sexual content
- Violence
- Illegal instructions
Top quality. Zero cost.
We compared Span-01 with five hosted and open guardrails on the same frozen set. Span-01 posts the highest average F1 across the 8 categories and leads 4 of them. Prompt leaks and violence are still where other systems score higher.
Quality vs. cost
Average F1 across the 8 categories against hosted cost per 1,000 checks. * Estimated hosted cost.
Per-category F1
Higher is better. The best score in each category is bold. Sorted by average F1 across the 8 categories.
| Guardrail | Jailbreak | Prompt leak | Unsafe | Hate | Self-harm | Sexual | Violence | Illegal | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Span-01 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.86 | 0.76 | 0.96 | 0.85 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.637 |
| TypeSafe Jev | 0.16 | 0.53 | 0.81 | 0.69 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 0.54 | 0.53 | 0.627 |
| gpt-oss safeguard 20B | 0.24 | 0.53 | 0.83 | 0.69 | 0.89 | 0.71 | 0.50 | 0.57 | 0.621 |
| Shieldstral 3B | 0.03 | 0.20 | 0.87 | 0.74 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 0.71 | 0.42 | 0.590 |
| OpenAI Moderation | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.79 | 0.67 | 0.92 | 0.36 | 0.53 | 0.58 | 0.481 |
| Azure AI Content Safety | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.71 | 0.85 | 0.70 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.377 |
How we built the benchmark.
We combined 7 pinned public sources: SALAD-Data, BIPIA, two JailbreakBench collections, RaccoonBench, the Prompt Injection Benchmark, and an AI agent security dataset.
We normalized 2,000 cases into 8 multi-label categories, for 16,000 case-category decisions in total. The mix: 1,200 positive cases, 400 hard negatives, and 400 benign prompts.
The hard negatives keep false positives visible, so a system can't score well just by blocking everything.
Span-01 and every hosted and open guardrail run on the same frozen set, compared overall and category by category.
Turn it on in one click.
- 01
Create a Respan account
Sign up on Respan and create an API key.
- 02
Route your app through the gateway
Run the setup command. Your coding agent points your project at the Respan gateway.
npx @respan/cli setup gateway
- 03
Choose the categories to block
Open Guardrails in the Respan platform and pick categories under Blocked categories, or select all. No code changes needed.
- Read the quickstart ↗
Guard every request.
Respan Guardrails are generally available now, free with the Respan gateway. Follow the quickstart to turn them on.