Llama Guard 4 12B

Llamav4 12BCurrent

by

Meta(ai lab)

Released April 30, 2025

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Context163.8K tokens

Price (In / Out)$0.18/M / $0.18/M

CategoryMultimodal LLM

About 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.

Capabilities

textvisioncode

Input Modalities

imagetext

Output Modalities

text

Technical Details

API Identifier: meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
Category: Multimodal LLM
Context Window: 163,840 tokens

Tags

multimodalbudget-friendlylong-context

Pricing

Token pricing for Llama Guard 4 12B API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.18/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$0.18/M

per million tokens

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Input tokens/month

Output tokens/month

Input cost$0.18

Output cost$0.09

Estimated monthly cost$0.27

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Large language models from the same organization.

Model	Context Window	Price (In / Out per M)	Capabilities
DINOv3Current	1	Free / Free	visionembeddingsimage understandingself supervised learning
Llama 4 MaverickCurrent	1.0M	$0.15 / $0.60	textvisioncode
Llama 4 ScoutCurrent	328K	$0.08 / $0.30	textvisioncode
Llama Guard 3 8BCurrent	131K	$0.48 / $0.03	textcode

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