Llama Guard 2 8B

Released

2024-04-18

Last refreshed

2026-05-02

Status

Researched 154d ago

Open SourceClassification

Llama Guard 2 8B is worth evaluating for classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating classification
Workloads that can use a 8k context window
Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

Vision or document-understanding workloads
Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Specifications

Family: Llama Guard
Released: 2024-04-18
Context: 8k
Parameters: 8B
Architecture: Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff: 2023-03
Specialization: safety
Training: finetuned

Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Founded 2013

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.150

Input / 1M

$0.150

Cheapest of 3 routes · OctoAI API (Deprecated)

Providers(3)

Fireworks AI OctoAI API (Deprecated)Replicate API

View 3 provider routes

About

Llama Guard 2 is an 8B-parameter LLM built on the Llama 3 architecture, specifically designed for content moderation tasks. Released by Meta on April 18, 2024, it excels in classifying both inputs and outputs of LLMs across 11 safety categories. The model generates text outputs indicating whether content is safe or unsafe, providing detailed feedback on violations. It aims to enhance user experience by minimizing false positives while maintaining high accuracy in content moderation, supporting developers in creating safer AI applications .

Llama Guard 2 8B is an open-source model in the Llama Guard family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, OctoAI API (Deprecated), and Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama Guard 2 8B yet.

Top use-case fit

Classification

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Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
OctoAI API (Deprecated)	$0.150	$0.150	Serverless
Fireworks AI	$0.200	$0.200	Provisioned
Replicate API	$0.050	$0.250	Serverless

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

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Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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