Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size

Fastino Labs has released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that evaluates four safety tasks — prompt safety, jailbreak strategy detection, harm category classification, and refusal detection — in a single forward pass. Built on an encoder architecture rather than the decoder-only design used by most guardrail models, GLiGuard achieves up to 16x higher throughput and 16.6x lower latency than current state-of-the-art models, while matching or exceeding the accuracy of