Safety model for policy screening, moderation, and risk-aware routing workflows
Llama Guard 4 12B by meta is offered by 4 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 3 of them. Its reference price is $0.21 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is OpenRouter at $0.18 / $0.18 per 1M, about 1.2× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 131,072 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 163,840, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. Accepted input modalities are Image and Text. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-08-31.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | Cloud | Free | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.18 | $0.18 | — | — | 163,840 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.18 | $0.18 | — | — | 163,840 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Helicone llama-guard-4 | Gateway | $0.21 | $0.21 | — | — | 131,072 | 1,024 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.