Llama Guard 3 8B
- Family
- Llama Guard
- Released
- 2024-07-23
- Context
- 8K
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- safety
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 4 routes · Cloudflare Workers AI
About
Llama Guard 3 8B is a specialized large language model developed by Meta for content safety classification. Fine-tuned from Llama 3.1, this 8-billion parameter model excels in moderation tasks, classifying both inputs and outputs across 14 hazard categories based on the MLCommons taxonomy. It supports multiple languages, including English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai. Designed for AI engineers focusing on safe and responsible AI systems, Llama Guard 3 offers improved accuracy and reduced false positive rates in identifying unsafe content, making it a valuable tool for developing robust content moderation systems in conversational AI applications .
Providers(4)
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.484 | $0.030 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.300 | $0.300 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.370 | $1.10 | Provisioned |
Deprecated provider routes(1)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Deprecated | meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
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Migration checks
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Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
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