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# Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B: $0.180/M in, $0.180/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Llama Guard 4 12B

Meta · released 2025-04-30

 $0.180 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.180 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.180 /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | image, text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-08-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to classify content in both LLM...