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Llama Guard 4 12B: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Llama Guard 4 12B is a language model from Meta, released in April 2025, with multimodal input, a 164K-token context window, and pricing from $0.180/M input and $0.180/M output.

Llama Guard 4 is a natively multimodal safety classifier with 12 billion parameters trained jointly on text and multiple images. Llama Guard 4 is a dense architecture pruned from the Llama 4 Scout pre-trained model and fine-tuned for

Input
TextImage
Output
Text
Speed
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Cost
$0.18/ 1M · 20:1 in:out
$0.18 in · $0.18 out

Llama Guard 4 12B pricing

Providers

Llama Guard 4 12B starts at $0.180 per million input tokens and $0.180 per million output tokens via DeepInfra.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.180—$0.180163.8K/163.8K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Llama Guard 4 12B model size

Llama Guard 4 12B has 12 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
12B
Medium (10–30B)
12B
1B7B70B405B

Llama Guard 4 12B context window

Input and output token limits for Llama Guard 4 12B, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
164Ktokens
164Ktokens
≈ 246 pages of text
164K
8K128K1M

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Llama Guard 4 12B latency

Llama Guard 4 12B time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Llama Guard 4 12B examples

Recent arena outputs from Llama Guard 4 12B, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Llama Guard 4 12B license

Llama Guard 4 12B is released under the Llama 4 Community License Agreement license, which restricts commercial use, has 12.0B parameters.

License
Llama 4 Community License Agreement
Non-commercial
Parameters
12.0B

Llama Guard 4 12B resources

Official sources for Llama Guard 4 12B: provider documentation, source repository, model weights.

FAQ

Common questions about Llama Guard 4 12B.

When was Llama Guard 4 12B released?

Llama Guard 4 12B was released on April 28, 2025 by Meta. This is the official Llama Guard 4 12B release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?

Llama Guard 4 12B pricing starts at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens via DeepInfra, the lowest price among tracked providers.

How big is Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B has 12 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B was created by Meta.

What is the license for Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B is released under the Llama 4 Community License Agreement license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Llama Guard 4 12B multimodal?

Yes, Llama Guard 4 12B is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B is available through 1 provider including DeepInfra.