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LlamaGuard 2 8B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 14, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

LlamaGuard 2 8B was released on May 13, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.200 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 8K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window
8K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.200
Output$0.200
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

Pricing Comparison

Compare LlamaGuard 2 8B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Context
Actions
$0.200
$0.200
8,192
Try
$0.200
$0.600
131,072
Try
$0.200
$0.500
2,000,000
Try
$0.200
$1.500
256,000
Try
$0.200
$0.400
256,000
Try
$0.200
$1.100
1,000,192
Try
$0.200
$1.000
196,608
Try
$0.200
$1.000
131,072
Try
$0.200
$1.200
262,144
Try
$0.200
$0.200
32,768
Try
$0.200
$0.200
32,768
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

LlamaGuard 2 8B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

2
Providers
$0.200
Cheapest Input/M
$0.200
Cheapest Output/M
Together
Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
T
Together
Best Price
$0.200
$0.200
-
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Best Price
$0.200
$0.200
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

LlamaGuard 2 8B costs $0.000200 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000200 per 1,000 output tokens.
LlamaGuard 2 8B is available from 2 provider(s). Together offers the best price.
We compare LlamaGuard 2 8B with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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