Llama Guard 4 12B

Released
2025-04-05
Last refreshed
2026-07-09
Status
Researched 131d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use
AI at Meta releases · 7 in the last 12 monthsChangelog →
Specifications
Released
2025-04-05
Context
164k
Parameters
12B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-08
Specialization
safety
Openness
Open weights
License
Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Created by
AI at Meta

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.180
Input / 1M
$0.180

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Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.18/1M input, $0.18/1M output.

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NVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.

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