LLM Comparison
Nova Lite 1.0 vs Llama Guard 4 12B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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N Nova Lite 1.0 | L Llama Guard 4 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Amazon | Meta |
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | Nova | Llama |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Dec 2024 | Apr 2025 |
| Context Window | 300K tokens | 164K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.06/M tokens | $0.18/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.24/M tokens | $0.18/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisioncode |
| Max Output | 5K tokens | — |
| API Identifier | amazon/nova-lite-v1 | meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 72 | — |
| View Nova Lite 1.0 | View Llama Guard 4 12B | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Lite 1.0Cheapest | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.18 | — |
| Llama Guard 4 12B | $0.18 | $0.09 | $0.27 | +50% |
Amazon
Nova Lite 1.0
Nova Lite 1.0 is a multimodal llm from Amazon. Supports up to 300,000 token context window. Achieves 72.0% on MMLU. Available from $0.06/M input tokens.
Meta
Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B is a multimodal llm from Meta. Supports up to 163,840 token context window. Available from $0.18/M input tokens.
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