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Llama Guard 4 12B API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

Llama Guard 4 12B was released on April 30, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.180 per million input tokens and $0.180 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 164K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window
164K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.180
Output$0.180
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Vision

Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama Guard 4 12B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.180
$0.180
163,840
Try
$0.150
$0.750
57.7
83.3
73.5
32,768
Try
$0.150
$0.600
32,768
Try
$0.150
$0.600
39.7
80.9
67.1
1,048,576
Try
$0.150
$0.600
128,000
Try
$0.150
$0.400
63.1
76.4
59.3
32,768
Try
$0.150
$0.600
32,768
Try
$0.150
$1.200
128,000
Try
$0.150
$0.600
23.4
64.8
42.6
128,000
Try
$0.170
$0.430
27.5
5.5
32,768
Try
$0.180
$0.180
131,072
Try

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

Compare Providers

Llama Guard 4 12B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

3
Providers
$0.180
Cheapest Input/M
$0.180
Cheapest Output/M
DeepInfra
Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
D
DeepInfra
Best Price
$0.180
$0.180
100.0%
T
Together
$0.200
$0.200
-
Groq
Groq
$0.200
$0.200
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.000180 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000180 per 1,000 output tokens.
Llama Guard 4 12B is available from 3 provider(s). DeepInfra offers the best price.
We compare Llama Guard 4 12B with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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