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Llama Guard 3 8B vs Nova Micro 1.0
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated July 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | Llama | Nova |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2025 | Dec 2024 |
| Context Window | 131K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.48/M tokens | $0.04/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.03/M tokens | $0.14/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textcode | textcode |
| Max Output | 100 tokens | 5K tokens |
| API Identifier | meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b | amazon/nova-micro-v1 |
| 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 | — |
| MMLU | — | 69.5openrouter |
| View Llama Guard 3 8B | View Nova Micro 1.0 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Micro 1.0Cheapest | $0.04 | $0.07 | $0.11 | — |
| Llama Guard 3 8B | $0.48 | $0.02 | $0.50 | +371% |
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.
Amazon
Nova Micro 1.0
Nova Micro 1.0 is a large language model from Amazon. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 69.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.04/M input tokens.
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