Llama Guard 4 12B pricing & price history
Llama Guard 4 12B by Meta Llama costs $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens, with a 164K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.14 input / $0.14 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
No real-traffic data for Meta Llama's own API on this model (it may not be served directly); the table below covers third-party hosts and says nothing about the official API.
Which platform runs Llama Guard 4 12B most reliably
1 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, DeepInfra is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra most stable | Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.34% | 99.7% | 100% |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
Cost calculator
Cheaper alternatives to Llama Guard 4 12B
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Intel. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu) | $0.0399 | $0.0784 | 1M | 27.8 | compare |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | $0.022 | $0.40 | 1M | — | compare |
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek | $0.098 | $0.29 | 1M | 28.6 | compare |
Llama 4 Scout Meta Llama | $0.10 | $0.30 | 1.3M | — | compare |
 MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.1M | 26.7 | compare |
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About Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to classify content in both LLM...
FAQ
How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?
Llama Guard 4 12B by Meta Llama costs $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens, with a 164K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.14 input / $0.14 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0004.
What is the context window of Llama Guard 4 12B?
Llama Guard 4 12B supports up to 163,840 tokens of context and up to 16,384 output tokens per request.
Has Llama Guard 4 12B’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Llama Guard 4 12B being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Llama Guard 4 12B as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Llama Guard 4 12B?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).