Llama Guard 4 12B

Name: Llama Guard 4 12B
Price: 0.18 USD
Author: Meta

Llamav4 12BCurrent

Meta(technology company)

Released April 30, 2025

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Context163.8K tokens

Price (In / Out)$0.18/M / $0.18/M

CategoryMultimodal LLM

Max Output40 tokens

About Llama Guard 4 12B

Llama Guard 4 12B is a Meta multimodal safety-classification model for text and image prompt or response moderation using MLCommons hazard categories.

Capabilities

textvisioncode

Input Modalities

imagetext

Output Modalities

text

Technical Details

API Identifier: meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
Category: Multimodal LLM
Context Window: 163,840 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 40 tokens

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Llama Guard 4 12B across standard benchmarks.

LG4 English output-filter F1Meta

61%

LG4 multilingual output-filter F1Meta

51%

LG4 single-image output-filter F1Meta

38%

LG4 multi-image output-filter F1Meta

52%

Pricing

Token pricing for Llama Guard 4 12B API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.18/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$0.18/M

per million tokens

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Input tokens/month

Output tokens/month

Input cost$0.18

Output cost$0.09

Estimated monthly cost$0.27

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