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Llama Guard 4 12B

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Researched 29d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

Open SourceRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

Llama Guard 4 12B is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 3 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
  • Workloads that can use a 164K context window
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads

Cheapest output

$0.180

OpenRouter per 1M tokens

Provider routes

3

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$0.180$0.180
Serverless
Replicate API$0.200$0.200
Serverless
NVIDIA NIM--
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

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

Llama Guard 4 12B has a 164K-token context window.

Llama Guard 4 12B input tokens at $0.18/1M, output at $0.18/1M.

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

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Specifications

Released2025-04-05
Context164K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral

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