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Llama Guard 4 12B vs Mistral Small 4
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated October 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 17 44.3 | |
| Family | Llama | Mistral |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Apr 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Context Window | 164K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.18/M tokens | $0.15/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.18/M tokens | $0.60/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.0150/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | 40 tokens | — |
| API Identifier | meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b | mistralai/mistral-small-2603 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LG4 English output-filter F1 | 61meta | — |
| LG4 multilingual output-filter F1 | 51meta | — |
| LG4 single-image output-filter F1 | 38meta | — |
| LG4 multi-image output-filter F1 | 52meta | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 68.5mistral |
| HumanEval | — | 78.5mistral |
| MGSM | — | 72.3mistral |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 58.8mistral |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 64mistral |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | — | 11.4511artificial-analysis |
| SciCode | — | 38.7731artificial-analysis |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 20.9738artificial-analysis |
| View Llama Guard 4 12B | View Mistral Small 4 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama Guard 4 12BCheapest | $0.18 | $0.09 | $0.27 | — |
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.30 | $0.45 | +67% |
Meta
Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B is a Meta multimodal safety-classification model for text and image prompt or response moderation using MLCommons hazard categories.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4
Mistral Small 4 is Mistral's Apache-2.0 open-weight hybrid model for instruction following, reasoning, and coding. It has 119B total parameters, 6.5B active parameters, and a 256K-token context window.
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