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Llama Guard 3 8B vs MiniMind
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | Llama | MiniMind |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 131K tokens | 1K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.48/M tokens | Free |
| Output Price | $0.03/M tokens | Free |
| Pricing Notes | — | Open-source project; API pricing is not applicable unless a downstream host adds serving costs. |
| Capabilities | textcode | texteducationtraining |
| Training Cutoff | — | Not specified |
| Max Output | 100 tokens | 1K tokens |
| API Identifier | meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b | jingyaogong/minimind |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LG3 English safety F1 | 93.9meta | — |
| LG3 English safety AUPRC | 98.5meta | — |
| LG3 tool-use safety F1 | 85.6meta | — |
| LG3 code-interpreter safety F1 | 88.5meta | — |
| View Llama Guard 3 8B | View MiniMind | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| MiniMindCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| Llama Guard 3 8B | $0.48 | $0.02 | $0.50 | +0% |
Meta
Llama Guard 3 8B
Llama Guard 3 8B is a Meta safety-classification model for prompt and response moderation across English, multilingual, search, and code-interpreter use cases.
Jingyao Gong
MiniMind
MiniMind is a small open-source language-model training project that demonstrates how to train a 64M-parameter LLM from scratch. The repository is aimed at builders who want a compact, inspectable model-training path rather than a hosted frontier API.
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