Meta: Llama Guard 3 8B
Llama Guard 3 8B is a language model from Meta released on Jul 23, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 131K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.484 per million input tokens and $0.03 per million output tokens.
Its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
2 providers serve it, including Cloudflare Workers AI and Eden AI. The lowest input price is $0.055 per million tokens at Eden AI.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.484 / $0.03 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 131K
- Released
- Jul 23, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Dec 2023
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Llama Guard 3 8B 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 | $0.484 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.03 / 1M tokens |
Llama Guard 3 8B providers
2 providers serve it, including Cloudflare Workers AI and Eden AI. The lowest input price is $0.055 per million tokens at Eden AI. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.484 | $0.03 | – | 131K | 131K |
| Eden AI | $0.055 | $0.055 | – | 131K | 4K |
What Llama Guard 3 8B 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 3 8B through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Llama Guard 3 8B questions
How much does the Llama Guard 3 8B API cost?
$0.484 per million input tokens and $0.03 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 3 8B?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 131,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Llama Guard 3 8B?
2 providers serve it, including Cloudflare Workers AI and Eden AI. The lowest input price is $0.055 per million tokens at Eden AI. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Llama Guard 3 8B 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 3 8B open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Llama Guard 3 8B released?
Jul 23, 2024, with training data up to Dec 2023.
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 3 8B?
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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