Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification.
Ways to buy 3
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bf16-flex, bf16 | $0.144 | $0.144 | $0.144 / $0.144Cheapest | n/a | Cheapest |
bf16 | $0.18 | $0.18 | $0.18 / $0.18+25% vs cheapest | n/a | +25% vs cheapest |
bf16-priority, bf16 | $0.27 | $0.27 | $0.27 / $0.27+88% vs cheapest | n/a | +88% vs cheapest |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $17.28 direct.
Helicone$17.28+0%
Kong AI Gateway$17.28+0%
LiteLLM$17.28+0%
Eden AI$18.23+5.5%
OpenRouter$18.23+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
Vercel AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meta · 1M | $1.25 | $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | $2 | 1M | on Modal | · | Muse Spark Open is a coding-optimized open-weight model. |
Meta · 1M | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20 | $8 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Muse Wonder is a frontier reasoning model from Meta, designed for complex personal and professional agentic tasks. |
Meta · 1M | $1.25 | $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | $2 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Muse Spark 1.3 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta for long-running agentic, multi-agent, and coding workflows. |
Meta · 1M | $0.1 | $0.2 | $0.1 / $0.2 | $0.125 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor is the cost-efficient contributor tier of Meta’s multimodal reasoning model for experimentation, learning, and early-stage agentic, multi-agent, and coding workflows. |
DeepSeek · 1MCheapest: $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | $0.15 | $0.6 | $0.15 / $0.6 | $0.262 | 1M | $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. |
DeepSeek · 1M | $0.045 | $0.3 | $0.045 / $0.3 | $0.109 | 1M | on InferenceNet (fp8) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. |
Anthropic · 1M | $0.1 | $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.2 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. |
Cohere · 128K | $0.12 | Free | $0.12 / Free | $0.09 | 128K | Lab list price | · | Embed 5 Pro is the higher-accuracy tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 2.4B parameters). |
About Llama Guard 4 12B
Takes image, text in and returns text. First listed Sep 23, 2026. Up to 16K output tokens. Blended price $0.144 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id llama-guard-4-12b.
Price history
No list-price history: this model is sold by hosts rather than its lab.
Questions
How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?
$0.144 per million input tokens and $0.144 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Llama Guard 4 12B?
164K tokens, with up to 16K tokens of output.
Where is Llama Guard 4 12B cheapest?
Of 3 routes tracked, DeepInfra is cheapest at $0.144 input and $0.144 output per million tokens.