Llama Guard 4 12B
by MetaChat
Safety model for policy screening, moderation, and risk-aware routing workflows
- Context
- 164K tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Parameters
- 12B total
- Released
- 2025-04-30
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- llama4
meta/llama-guard-4-12b · also seen as meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-04-30
- Weights
- Opengated
- License
- llama4
- Input
- Text, Image
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 163,840 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 16,384
- Providers
- 3 + 2 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.18–$0.20 in · $0.18–$0.20 out per 1M tokens · 2 of 3 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-04-30
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08-31
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B
- Parameters
- 12B total
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
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.18 in / $0.18 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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