How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?

Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens on standard pricing. A workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month is about $4.50.

What is the context length of Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B accepts up to 163,840 tokens (164K) of input and can return up to 16,384 tokens in one response.

Does Llama Guard 4 12B support tool calling and structured outputs?

Tool calling is not listed for Llama Guard 4 12B. Supported tools: Deterministic seed.

What inputs and outputs does Llama Guard 4 12B support?

Llama Guard 4 12B accepts Image, Text as input and produces Text as output.

When was Llama Guard 4 12B released?

Llama Guard 4 12B was released by Meta in 2025-04-30.

Llama Guard 4 12B

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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... Built by Meta.

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Input price

$0.18

per 1M tokens · Standard

Output price

$0.18

per 1M tokens · Standard

Input limit

164K

tokens

Output limit

16K

tokens

Input formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

Output formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

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Llama Guard 4 12B price history

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Llama Guard 4 12B cost calculator

Input20M tokens

Output5M tokens

$4.50/month

Standard pricing

Overview

What is Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B is a text & reasoning and vision model from Meta. 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... Its 164K context window and $0.18 input price make it a candidate for cost-sensitive, high-throughput applications.

Image understandingDocument analysisContent workflowsClassification

Rates

Llama Guard 4 12B pricing

Pricing is based on token usage. Provider-specific caching, batch, regional, and tool charges may affect the final cost.

Input · Standard

$0.18

Per 1M tokens

Cached input · Standard

Not available

No listed cached-input rate

Capabilities

Llama Guard 4 12B Tools

Tools available when using Llama Guard 4 12B through supported provider APIs.

Function calling

Not supported

Structured outputs

Not supported

JSON mode

Not supported

Reasoning

Not supported

Built-in web search

Not supported

Log probabilities

Not supported

Deterministic seed

Supported

Parallel tool calls

Not supported

Prompt caching

Not supported

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

Low input cost at $0.18 per million tokens suits high-volume workloads.
A 164K context window covers most focused application workflows.
Supports text & reasoning and vision workloads in one model.

Limitations

Real-world cost still depends on prompt length, response length and provider-specific billing rules.
The 164K context window is smaller than several long-context alternatives.
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