Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B is a language model from Meta released on Apr 30, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 164K token context window and up to 16K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.18 / $0.18 per 1M
- Context
- 164K
- Max output
- 16K
- Released
- Apr 30, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Llama Guard 4 12B pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.18 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.18 / 1M tokens |
What Llama Guard 4 12B costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Llama Guard 4 12B through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Llama Guard 4 12B questions
How much does the Llama Guard 4 12B API cost?
$0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Llama Guard 4 12B?
163,840 tokens of input, and it can write up to 16,384 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Llama Guard 4 12B support tool calling?
Not through the standard tools parameter. For an agent that calls your APIs, pick a model from the alternatives below that does.
Is Llama Guard 4 12B open source?
No. Meta serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Llama Guard 4 12B released?
Apr 30, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Llama Guard 4 12B?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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