Llama Guard 3 8B
by MetaChat
Safety model for policy screening, moderation, and risk-aware routing workflows
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Parameters
- 8B total
- Released
- 2024-07-23
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- llama3.1
meta/llama-guard-3-8b · also seen as @cf/meta/llama-guard-3-8b, cloudflare/@cf/meta/llama-guard-3-8b, deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B, +1 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-07-23
- Weights
- Opengated
- License
- llama3.1
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 5 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.055–$0.484 in · $0.03–$0.20 out per 1M tokens · 3 of 5 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2024-07-23
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
- Parameters
- 8B total
- Base model
- meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.055 in / $0.055 out per 1M tokens at Deep Infra on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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