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Llama Guard 4 12B

Llama Guard 4 12B is attributed to Meta in the catalog. It accepts text and image input and produces text output.

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Modalities

Hosted provider token rates

$0.144 / $0.144

USD per 1M input / output tokens · Kilo Gateway

Context

164K

Released

2025-04-29

Knowledge cutoff

Unknown

No recent lab-operated provider rate is available. Showing the third-party host with the lowest input rate + ¼ output rate. This is one offering, not an average; other providers, modalities, tiers, and fees may differ.

Where to use it

7 observed offerings · token prices in USD per million where available

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Helicone

llama-guard-4

current

Input

$0.21

Output

$0.21

Cache

—

Context

131K

Max output

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: Unknown
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Nvidia

meta/llama-guard-4-12b

current

Input

Output

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

16K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: Unknown
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

OpenRouter

meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b

current

Input

$0.18

Output

$0.18

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

16K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Hugging Face

meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

current

Input

$0.18

Output

$0.18

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

164K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: Unknown
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Kilo Gateway

meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b

current

Input

$0.144

Output

$0.144

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

16K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Deep Infra

meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

current

Input

$0.18

Output

$0.18

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

164K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: Unknown
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Eden AI

deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

current

Input

$0.18

Output

$0.18

Cache

—

Context

164K

Max output

164K

Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Limits and capabilities reflect each provider’s listed offering. Unknown means support was not reported.

Provider / API ID	Status	Context	Max output	Input	Output	Cache read	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Temperature
Helicone llama-guard-4	currentRecent price	131K	1K	$0.21	$0.21	—	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Nvidia meta/llama-guard-4-12b	currentRecent price	164K	16K	$0	$0	—	No	No	Unknown	Yes
OpenRouter meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b	currentRecent price	164K	16K	$0.18	$0.18	—	No	No	No	Yes
Hugging Face meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B	currentRecent price	164K	164K	$0.18	$0.18	—	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Kilo Gateway meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b	currentRecent price	164K	16K	$0.144	$0.144	—	No	No	No	Yes
Deep Infra meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B	currentRecent price	164K	164K	$0.18	$0.18	—	No	No	Unknown	Yes
Eden AI deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B	currentRecent price	164K	164K	$0.18	$0.18	—	No	No	No	Yes

Capabilities and limits

Input: text, image
Output: text
Max output: 164K
Weights: Open (source-reported)
Release: 2025-04-29
Knowledge cutoff: Unknown
Family: llama

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Model and price history

Latest recorded change: source refresh · 2026-10-12

Model changes (1)

source refresh · 2026-10-12

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Price history (159 observations)

Date	Provider	Input / output
2026-11-01	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-11-01	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-11-01	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-11-01	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-11-01	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-11-01	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-11-01	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-31	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-31	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-31	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-31	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-31	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-31	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-31	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-30	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-30	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-30	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-30	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-30	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-30	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-30	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-29	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-29	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-29	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-29	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-29	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-29	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-29	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-28	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-28	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-28	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-28	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-28	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-28	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-28	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-27	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-27	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-27	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-27	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-27	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-27	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-27	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-27	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-27	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-27	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-27	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-27	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-27	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-26	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-26	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-26	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-26	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-26	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-26	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-26	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-25	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-25	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-25	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-25	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-25	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-25	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-25	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-24	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-24	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-24	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-24	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-24	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-24	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-24	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-24	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-24	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-24	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-23	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-23	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-23	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-23	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-23	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-23	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-23	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-23	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-23	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-23	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-23	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-23	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-23	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-23	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-23	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-23	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-22	OpenRouter	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-22	Nvidia	$0 / $0
2026-10-22	Hugging Face	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-22	Kilo Gateway	$0.144 / $0.144
2026-10-22	Deep Infra	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-22	Eden AI	$0.18 / $0.18
2026-10-22	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-21	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-20	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-19	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-18	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-17	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-12	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-12	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-11	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-10	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-09	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-09	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-08	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-10-07	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-22	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-21	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-20	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-19	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-18	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21
2026-09-17	Helicone	$0.21 / $0.21