How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?

Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18/M input tokens and $0.18/M output tokens.

What is the context length of Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B has a 163,840 token context window. It supports up to 16,384 completion tokens.

Does Llama Guard 4 12B support tool calling and structured outputs?

No. Llama Guard 4 12B does not accept tools, so function calling is unavailable. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

What inputs and outputs does Llama Guard 4 12B support?

Llama Guard 4 12B accepts images and text as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: DeepInfra.

What other text models does Meta Llama have?

Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and 4 more are other text models from Meta Llama.

When was Llama Guard 4 12B released?

Llama Guard 4 12B was released on April 30, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is August 31, 2024.

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B

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Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to classify content in both LLM inputs (prompt classification) and in LLM responses (response classification). It acts as an LLM—generating text in its output that indicates whether a given prompt or response is safe or unsafe, and if unsafe, it also lists the content categories violated.

Llama Guard 4 was aligned to safeguard against the standardized MLCommons hazards taxonomy and designed to support multimodal Llama 4 capabilities. Specifically, it combines features from previous Llama Guard models, providing content moderation for English and multiple supported languages, along with enhanced capabilities to handle mixed text-and-image prompts, including multiple images. Additionally, Llama Guard 4 is integrated into the Llama Moderations API, extending robust safety classification to text and images.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.18 / $0.18per 1M

Context

164K

Released

Apr 30, 2025

Knowledge cutoff

Aug 2024

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


	$0.18	$0.18	0.27s	50 tok/s	99.47%
Priority	$0.27	$0.27	0.28s	54 tok/s	99.37%
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Flex	$0.144	$0.144	--	--	100.00%

Input $0.18Output $0.18
50 tok/s99.47% uptime
Input $0.27Output $0.27
Priority
54 tok/s99.37% uptime
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Input $0.144Output $0.144
Flex
-- tok/s100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.2036/M tokens

Output

$0.08876/M tokens

Llama Guard 4 12B — Price history

Price history

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		$0.179	$0.0848	0.0%	73.0%
	Priority	$0.270	$0.0873	0.0%	27.0%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
	Flex	$0.143	$0.1424	0.0%	0.1%

Effective in $0.179Effective out $0.0848
Token share
73.0%
Effective in $0.270Effective out $0.0873
PriorityToken share
27.0%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Effective in $0.143Effective out $0.1424
FlexToken share
0.1%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.54%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.54%

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Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.66%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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