Llama Guard 4 12B
MetaReleased Apr 30, 2025Open weights · Llama Community Licensellama-guard-4-12b
- Reasoning
- no
- Knowledge cutoff
- December 2024
- Context
- 164k tokens
- Max output
- 16k tokens
- Input
- text, image
- API features
- seed
Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from Meta · cutoff: llama.com
Open weights under Llama Community License: you can run Llama Guard 4 12B on your own hardware instead of paying per token.
Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | Uptime 24h | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfrabf16 · 160K ctx · 16K out | $0.18 | $0.18 | — | 99.0% | Oct 23 |
1 provider · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | bf16 | 160K | 16K | no | no | no |
Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us
Llama Guard 4 12B spec sheet, field by field, with sources
Llama Guard 4 12B spec sheetmaker-declared
What Meta declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- weights repository under access conditions
- Parameters
- weights repository under access conditions
- Active experts
- weights repository under access conditions
- Weight precision
- weights repository under access conditions
- License
- Llama Community License — open weights, conditionalcuratedScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- December 2024maker's docs
- Modalities
- weights repository under access conditions
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ April 30, 2025 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B · weights repository @ 87acb4b · file not readable · read 2026-10-08 · 2 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Date | Provider | Input | Output | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22 | DeepInfra | $0.14 → $0.18 | $0.14 → $0.18 | +25% |
| Oct 16 | DeepInfra | $0.18 → $0.14 | $0.18 → $0.14 | −20% |
Every published change of input or output price, newest first · change on input + output · full series: pricing-history.csv.
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.27 | $1.53 | $0.90 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
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