Pricing

All plans include every validator and template. Compare monthly requests, rate limits, and analytics below — Developer includes a free trial (7 days); Growth and Production bill from day one.

Free includes 10,000 requests per month (hard cap), shadow mode on every tier, and 60 requests per minute?. Paid plans can opt into metered overage (Overage starts from $3 per additional 100,000 requests beyond your monthly allowance (depending on plan)). Developer adds envelope-encrypted Provider vault; Growth+ adds custom endpoints for locally hosted stacks (vLLM, Ollama, LiteLLM) or private cloud models without losing validation layer features.

How plans stack

Free is the foundation. Each upgrade keeps what you already have and adds higher limits or new capabilities — all validators and templates stay unlocked on every tier.

Free

$0 / month

For developers and testing

Base includes

  • ✓10,000 requests / month (hard cap)
  • ✓60 requests / minute
  • ✓Playbooks: 2 agents, 1 provider per flow, 3 pending approvals
  • ✓Full access to all rules & templates
  • ✓Full access to all providers
  • ✓Basic dashboard
  • ✓Shadow mode
  • ✓Response Repair

Developer

$69 / month

For growing developers, small teams, and production MVPs

Everything in Free, plus

  • ↑100,000 requests / month (10× Free)
  • ↑300 requests / minute (5× Free)
  • ↑Playbooks: 5 agents, 2 providers per flow, 20 pending approvals
  • +Metered overage available — $7 / 100k beyond allowance
  • +Validation retries (re-ask)
  • +Retries on failed validations
  • +Provider vault
  • +Email alerts
  • +Basic budget alerts

Growth

$149 / month

Most popular. The sweet spot for teams building real production agents

Everything in Developer, plus

  • ↑1,000,000 requests / month (10× Developer)
  • ↑1,200 requests / minute (4× Developer)
  • ↑Playbooks: unlimited agents, unlimited providers per flow, 100 pending approvals
  • ↑30 days log retention
  • ↓$5 / 100k overage beyond allowance
  • +Analytics + request tracing
  • +Priority email support
  • +Full budget alerts
  • +Compliance workflows (PII, Safety, JSON, RAG)

Production

$399 / month

For companies that need reliable, high-volume AI in production

Everything in Growth, plus

  • ↑5,000,000 requests / month (5× Growth)
  • ↑5,000 requests / minute
  • ↑90 days log retention
  • ↓$3 / 100k overage beyond allowance
  • +RBAC
  • +99.5% SLA
  • +Slack support

Enterprise

Starting from $1,499 / month

For large organizations where AI failure is not an option

Everything in Production, plus

  • ↑High-volume tier (10M–500M+ requests)
  • ↑50,000+ requests / minute
  • ↑365 days log retention
  • +No metered overage
  • +Self-hosted deployment
  • +Custom rules & agent packs
  • +Dedicated Slack / Teams
  • +SLO p99 < 15 ms · audit logs
  • +BYOK / BYOVPC / BYOProvider
FeatureFreeBase tierDeveloperEverything in Free, plusGrowthEverything in Developer, plusProductionEverything in Growth, plusEnterpriseEverything in Production, plus
Usage limits
Requests / month1 request = one full single-agent flow (input checks, output checks, and send/receive processing). In playbooks, each live agent step with an upstream call counts as 1 request (validations included).
10,000
100,00010× Free
1,000,00010× Developer
5,000,0005× Growth
10M–500M+High volume
Token usage trackingPrompt + completion totals are tracked in the dashboard for all plans. Hard caps (HTTP 402 token_cap_exceeded) apply only when you set an org or per-agent monthly token limit.
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Requests / minute
60
3005× Free
1,2004× Developer
5,000
50,000+10×+ Production
Vanguard Orchestration LayerMulti-agent playbooks on every plan — the same deterministic layer that validates each step. Editor Simulate is free; each live agent step counts as one request toward your monthly quota.
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Max agents / flowMaximum number of agent-type steps in a single playbook
2
↑ 5
↑ Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Max providers / flowMaximum distinct LLM providers across agent steps in one playbook
1
↑ 2
↑ Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Pending human approvalsMaximum concurrent playbook runs waiting on a human approval decision
3
↑ 20
↑ 100
100
100
Log retention
7 days
7 days
30 days
90 days
365 days
Overage (per 100k requests)Metered beyond monthly allowance on paid plans with an active subscription and overage enabled. Free is hard-capped.
Hard cap
$7
$5
$3
Custom
Alerts & support
SLAUptime commitment on paid production tiers
—
—
—
99.5%
Up to 99.99%

Full feature matrix with every capability is available on larger screens.

Discounts & savings

Stack annual billing with enterprise pilots where available. Enterprise teams negotiate committed-use rates.

Annual billing

2 months free

Pay yearly on Developer, Growth, or Production and get two months free versus monthly. Toggle annual pricing above to see per-year totals.

Developer $690/yr · Growth $1,490/yr · Production $3,990/yr

Enterprise POC

14-day sandbox

Test with real production traffic. Need to verify latency, throughput, or compliance under real load? Get a dedicated, 14-day Sandbox environment with Production-tier limits and shared Slack engineering support.

No credit card required for qualified engineering teams — Contact Sales.

Volume & overage

Pay as you grow

Paid plans with an active subscription can opt into metered overage beyond the monthly allowance. Free stays hard-capped until you upgrade.

Overage starts from $3 per additional 100,000 requests beyond your monthly allowance (depending on plan) — Developer $7, Growth $5, Production $3 / 100k when overage is enabled; Enterprise uses committed volume.

Enterprise volume

Custom

High-volume or multi-region deployments get negotiated rates, pooled limits, self-hosted deployment (VPC or on-prem), and custom SLA.

Trust and deployment · Contact sales for committed-use pricing

Trials, upgrades & billing

  • ✓Developer trial — try the paid Developer tier free for 7 days before your first charge. Growth and Production subscribe immediately.
  • ✓Upgrade or downgrade anytime from the billing dashboard; Stripe handles proration.
  • ✓Budget alerts at 80% and 100% of monthly request allowance — basic on Developer, full thresholds on Growth+.
  • ✓Proof of concept available for Enterprise — negotiated success criteria with money-back terms if the pilot does not meet goals.

More billing questions? See the FAQ or contact us.

Enterprise

high-volume tier (10m–500m+ requests), self-hosted deployment (VPC or on-prem), custom rules and agent packs, dedicated Slack or Teams, and negotiated SLA with SLO p99 under 15 ms. Trust and deployment · Self-host docs

Contact sales
Pricing — LLM Validation Plans · ValGuard.ai