Llama Guard 4 12B
openrouter The API that serves this model and sets the prices shown here. meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b The model identifier to send in API requests. LLM Generates text from a prompt, so it can be compared with other LLMs on price and capability. Small The fast, low-latency tier of a model family, suited to high-volume or simple tasks.Provider: meta · served via OpenRouter
Knowledge cutoff: August 2024
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Sticker prices & cost-per-token
List rates as published by OpenRouter, before any volume or enterprise discounts.
$0.18
$0.18
163,840 tokens
16,384
tokens per response (includes reasoning tokens)
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| Effective | Price |
|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 – present | Input cost: $0.18 / 1M, Output cost: $0.18 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
History
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| Date | Changed by | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 | Unknown | Initial record created |
Source
https://models.dev/api.json (models.dev provider 'openrouter', bulk import 2026-08-13)Comparable models
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Reliability
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Frequently asked questions
Llama Guard 4 12B (meta via OpenRouter) costs $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens, as last published by OpenRouter.
Llama Guard 4 12B has a context window of 163,840 tokens (the maximum combined input and output it can handle in a single request).
Llama Guard 4 12B sits in the small size tier. Size tiers run from micro (small enough to run on a device) through small, medium and large to extra large (frontier flagships), and are assigned from the model's family, naming and limits rather than its price.
Llama Guard 4 12B can generate up to 16,384 tokens in a single response. Reasoning (thinking) tokens count toward this limit.
Llama Guard 4 12B's training data runs through August 2024, so it may not know about later events. Coolhand records the cutoff at month precision, since providers often publish only the month.
Llama Guard 4 12B accepts image and text as input and produces text as output, as recorded in the Coolhand catalog.
No, Llama Guard 4 12B is currently active with no announced deprecation date.
Call GET https://coolhandlabs.com/api/v2/inference_apis?q[source_api_eq]=openrouter&q[model_eq]=meta-llama%2Fllama-guard-4-12b — free, no API key required, and scoped to just this model since source_api and model together are unique. See https://coolhandlabs.com/docs for the full REST API reference.
Coolhand also tracks Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct, and Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct from meta. Some may already be deprecated, so check each model's status alongside its current pricing.
| Model | Input cost | Output cost | Context window | Max output tokens | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct via Azure | $0.71/1M $0.0000007100 | $0.71/1M $0.0000007100 | 128,000 | 32,768 | Active |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct via Bedrock | $0.72/1M $0.0000007200 | $0.72/1M $0.0000007200 | 128,000 | 4,096 | Active |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct via Bedrock | $0.22/1M $0.0000002200 | $0.22/1M $0.0000002200 | 128,000 | 4,096 | Active |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct via Bedrock | $0.72/1M $0.0000007200 | $0.72/1M $0.0000007200 | 128,000 | 4,096 | Active |
| Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct via Bedrock | $0.24/1M $0.0000002400 | $0.97/1M $0.0000009700 | 1,000,000 | 8,192 | Active |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct via Bedrock | $0.17/1M $0.0000001700 | $0.66/1M $0.0000006600 | 10,000,000 | 8,192 | Active |
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