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Llama Guard 3 8B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Llama Guard 3 8B was released on February 12, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.020 per million input tokens and $0.060 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window
131K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.020
Output$0.060
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama Guard 3 8B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.020
$0.060
131,072
Try
$0.000
$0.000
131,072
Try
$0.000
$0.000
131,072
Try
$0.000
$0.000
131,072
Try
$0.010
$0.020
15.1
50.5
34.4
32,768
Try
$0.010
$0.020
32,768
Try
$0.017
$0.110
131,000
Try
$0.017
$0.068
11.2
41.7
29.1
96,000
Try
$0.020
$0.100
19.5
58.0
38.2
32,768
Try
$0.020
$0.040
14.6
48.8
29.6
32,768
Try
$0.020
$0.020
8.3
34.7
25.5
131,072
Try

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

Compare Providers

Llama Guard 3 8B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

3
Providers
$0.020
Cheapest Input/M
$0.030
Cheapest Output/M
Nebius
Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
N
Nebius
Best Price
$0.020
$0.060
-
Groq
Groq
$0.200
$0.200
-
C
Cloudflare
$0.480
$0.030
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama Guard 3 8B costs $0.000020 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000060 per 1,000 output tokens.
Llama Guard 3 8B is available from 3 provider(s). Nebius offers the best price.
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