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Guardrails

Update a guardrail

Update an existing guardrail, or materialize an unconfigured workspace default guardrail. Collection fields use replace semantics: send the full desired set on every update. Management key required.

patch/guardrails/{id}

Path parameters

idstring uuid required

The unique identifier of the guardrail to update

Example:550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

The unique identifier of the guardrail to update

Request body

allowed_data_regionsGuardrailDataRegion[] nullable

Data regions through which requests governed by this guardrail must arrive. global is https://openrouter.ai, europe is https://eu.openrouter.ai, and us is https://us.openrouter.ai. Requests arriving through any other region are rejected. null leaves the ingress region unrestricted. When several guardrails apply (workspace default, member, API key), the effective regions are the intersection of every non-null value. An empty array is rejected.

allowed_modelsstring[] nullable

Array of model identifiers (slug or canonical_slug accepted)

allowed_providersstring[] nullable

New list of allowed provider IDs

descriptionstring nullable

New description for the guardrail

enable_free_model_publicationboolean nullable

Whether this guardrail allows free endpoints that publish prompts.

enable_free_model_trainingboolean nullable

Whether this guardrail allows free endpoints that train on request data.

enable_paid_model_trainingboolean nullable

Whether this guardrail allows paid endpoints that train on request data.

enforce_zdrboolean nullable

Deprecated. Use enforce_zdr_anthropic, enforce_zdr_openai, enforce_zdr_google, enforce_zdr_xai, and enforce_zdr_other instead. When provided, its value is copied into any of those per-provider fields that are not explicitly specified on the request.

enforce_zdr_anthropicboolean nullable

Whether to enforce zero data retention for Anthropic models. Falls back to enforce_zdr when not provided.

enforce_zdr_googleboolean nullable

Whether to enforce zero data retention for Google models. Falls back to enforce_zdr when not provided.

enforce_zdr_openaiboolean nullable

Whether to enforce zero data retention for OpenAI models. Falls back to enforce_zdr when not provided.

enforce_zdr_otherboolean nullable

Whether to enforce zero data retention for models that are not from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI. Falls back to enforce_zdr when not provided.

enforce_zdr_xaiboolean nullable

Whether to enforce zero data retention for xAI models. Falls back to enforce_zdr when not provided.

ignored_modelsstring[] nullable

Array of model identifiers to exclude from routing (slug or canonical_slug accepted)

ignored_providersstring[] nullable

List of provider IDs to exclude from routing

include_byok_in_budgetsboolean

Whether BYOK (bring-your-own-key) inference spend counts toward this guardrail's limit_usd, in addition to OpenRouter credit spend. Omit to leave unchanged.

limit_usdnumber double nullable

New spending limit in USD

namestring

New name for the guardrail

reset_interval'daily' | 'weekly' | 'monthly' | 'null' nullable

Interval at which the limit resets (daily, weekly, monthly)

Example request

{
  "description": "Updated description",
  "limit_usd": 75,
  "name": "Updated Guardrail Name",
  "reset_interval": "weekly"
}

Response

Guardrail updated successfully

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "allowed_models": null,
    "allowed_providers": [
      "openai"
    ],
    "content_filter_builtins": [
      {
        "action": "redact",
        "label": "[EMAIL]",
        "slug": "email"
      }
    ],
    "content_filters": null,
    "created_at": "2025-08-24T10:30:00Z",
    "description": "Updated description",
    "enable_free_model_publication": false,
    "enable_free_model_training": true,
    "enable_paid_model_training": true,
    "enforce_zdr": null,
    "enforce_zdr_anthropic": true,
    "enforce_zdr_google": true,
    "enforce_zdr_openai": true,
    "enforce_zdr_other": true,
    "enforce_zdr_xai": true,
    "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "ignored_models": null,
    "ignored_providers": null,
    "include_byok_in_budgets": true,
    "limit_usd": 75,
    "name": "Updated Guardrail Name",
    "reset_interval": "weekly",
    "updated_at": "2025-08-24T16:00:00Z",
    "workspace_id": "0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11"
  }
}

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