Llama Guard 3 8B
Llamav3 8BCurrentReleased February 12, 2025
Context131.1K tokens
Price (In / Out)$0.48/M / $0.03/M
CategoryLarge Language Model
Max Output100 tokens
About Llama Guard 3 8B
Llama Guard 3 8B is a Meta safety-classification model for prompt and response moderation across English, multilingual, search, and code-interpreter use cases.
Capabilities
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Input Modalities
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Output Modalities
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Technical Details
- API Identifier
- meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b
- Category
- Large Language Model
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max Output Tokens
- 100 tokens
Tags
budget-friendlylong-contextsafetymoderationguardrails
Benchmarks
Performance scores for Llama Guard 3 8B across standard benchmarks.
LG3 English safety F1Meta
93.9%
LG3 English safety AUPRCMeta
98.5%
LG3 tool-use safety F1Meta
85.6%
LG3 code-interpreter safety F1Meta
88.5%
Pricing
Token pricing for Llama Guard 3 8B API usage.
Input Tokens
$0.48/M
per million tokens
Output Tokens
$0.03/M
per million tokens
Pricing Calculator
Input cost$0.48
Output cost$0.02
Estimated monthly cost$0.50
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