Llama Guard 3 8B
Llama Guard 3 8B is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Llama Guard
- Released
- 2024-07-23
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- safety
- Training
- finetuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 5 routes · OpenRouter
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 .
Llama Guard 3 8B is an open-source model in the Llama Guard family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Cloudflare Workers AI, Microsoft Foundry, OpenRouter, and 2 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama Guard 3 8B yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 5Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.480 | $0.030 | Serverless |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.484 | $0.030 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.300 | $0.300 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.