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DeepSeek V3.2 vs Llama Guard 4 12B
List-price comparison ·DeepSeek V3.2 details ·Llama Guard 4 12B details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama Guard 4 12B is the cheapest — 40% less than the priciest here ($28.80/mo vs $48.28/mo).
| DeepSeek V3.2 | Llama Guard 4 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.269 | $0.180 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.400 | $0.180 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0005 | $0.0003 |
| Context window | 163,840 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | 16,384 tokens |
| Quality score | 79/100 | 72/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | DeepSeek V3.2 | Llama Guard 4 12B |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.4828 | $0.288 |
| 10,000 | $4.83 | $2.88 |
| 100,000 | $48.28 | $28.80 |
DeepSeek V3.2
Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.
Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.
Llama Guard 4 12B
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