Llama Guard 3 8B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 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

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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
M Meta-llama	Llama Guard 3 8B	$0.020	$0.060	—	—	—	131,072	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B	$0.010	$0.020	15.1	50.5	34.4	32,768	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B	$0.010	$0.020	—	—	—	32,768	Try
IB Ibm-granite	Granite 4.0 Micro	$0.017	$0.110	—	—	—	131,000	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 4B	$0.017	$0.068	11.2	41.7	29.1	96,000	Try
MI Nousresearch	DeepHermes 3 Mistral 24B Preview	$0.020	$0.100	19.5	58.0	38.2	32,768	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-20b	$0.020	$0.100	77.7	74.8	68.8	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemma 3n 4B	$0.020	$0.040	14.6	48.8	29.6	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.020	$0.020	8.3	34.7	25.5	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	$0.020	$0.050	11.6	47.6	25.9	16,384	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Nemo	$0.020	$0.040	—	26.4	8.7	131,072	Try

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

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

Providers

$0.020

Cheapest Input/M

$0.030

Cheapest Output/M

Nebius

Best Price

Provider Pricing

5 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N Nebius Best Price	$0.020	$0.060	100.0%
OpenRouter Best Price	$0.020	$0.060	-
D DeepInfra	$0.055	$0.055	-
Groq	$0.200	$0.200	-
C Cloudflare	$0.480	$0.030	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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