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Llama Guard 4 12B

Meta · released Apr 30, 2025

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Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to classify content in both LLM...

Specification

Context window
1.05M
Max output
16K
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 31, 2024
Parameters
12B
Licence
other
Serving providers
2
Moderated
No
Uptime
99.1%

Intelligence

Not benchmarked

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

14 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

138ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.01

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

This model has not been put through the benchmark suite. Its speed, latency and pricing figures below are still measured.

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Claude Opus 563.1
Claude Fable 562.1
GPT-5.6 Sol60.9
Kimi K359.7
Qwen3.8 Max58.1
Claude Opus 4.857.3
Muse Spark 1.256.8

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.18
Output / 1M tokens
$0.18
Cached input / 1M
Not offered
Blended 3:1
$0.18

One task, estimated

$0.01

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
25,000
Profile
Standard

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.