Llama Guard 7B
Llama Guard 7B 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 2k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Llama Guard
- Released
- 2023-12-07
- Context
- 2k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2022-09
- 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 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
Llama Guard 7B is a specialized content moderation model based on the Llama 2 architecture, designed to safeguard AI interactions. With 7 billion parameters, it excels in classifying and moderating both input prompts and output responses from large language models. The model employs a comprehensive risk taxonomy to identify various categories of harmful content, including violence, hate speech, and sexual content. Trained on diverse datasets, including prompts from the Anthropic dataset and in-house generated responses, Llama Guard 7B has demonstrated superior performance compared to industry-standard content moderation APIs.
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 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Provisioned |
| Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
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Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
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Migration checks
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Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI