Get a guardrail

Get a single guardrail by ID. Management key required.

GET /guardrails/{id}

Get a guardrail

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/guardrails/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data": {
    "allowed_models": null,
    "allowed_providers": [
      "openai",
      "anthropic",
      "google"
    ],
    "created_at": "2025-08-24T10:30:00Z",
    "description": "Guardrail for production environment",
    "enforce_zdr": false,
    "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "ignored_models": null,
    "ignored_providers": null,
    "limit_usd": 100,
    "name": "Production Guardrail",
    "reset_interval": "monthly",
    "updated_at": "2025-08-24T15:45:00Z",
    "workspace_id": "0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 401,
    "message": "Missing Authentication header"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 404,
    "message": "Resource not found"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 500,
    "message": "Internal Server Error"
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

API key as bearer token in Authorization header

Path Parameters

id · string<uuid> · required

The unique identifier of the guardrail to retrieve

Example:

"550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"

Response

200

application/json

Guardrail details

data · object · required

The guardrail

Show child attributes

Example:

{
  "allowed_models": null,
  "allowed_providers": ["openai", "anthropic", "google"],
  "content_filter_builtins": [
    {
      "action": "redact",
      "label": "[EMAIL]",
      "slug": "email"
    }
  ],
  "content_filters": null,
  "created_at": "2025-08-24T10:30:00Z",
  "description": "Guardrail for production environment",
  "enforce_zdr": null,
  "enforce_zdr_anthropic": true,
  "enforce_zdr_google": false,
  "enforce_zdr_openai": true,
  "enforce_zdr_other": false,
  "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "ignored_models": null,
  "ignored_providers": null,
  "limit_usd": 100,
  "name": "Production Guardrail",
  "reset_interval": "monthly",
  "updated_at": "2025-08-24T15:45:00Z",
  "workspace_id": "0df9e665-d932-5740-b2c7-b52af166bc11"
}