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Llama Guard 4 12B Pricing
Meta · meta-llama-llama-guard-4-12b
Input / 1M tokens
$0.180
Output / 1M tokens
$0.180
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
≈ 1,398 pages of text
Max output
16,384 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0003
1,000 requests / month$0.288/mo10,000 requests / month$2.88/mo100,000 requests / month$28.80/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Llama Guard 4 12B preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Effective at policy violation detection and safety classification across text and image inputs.
The business tradeoff
Specialized for moderation only; unsuitable for general reasoning or generation and requires separate deployment.
Cheaper from Meta
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.