Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B (free)
Analysis Summary
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B (free) sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #555 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports vision.
Editorial notes
Llama Guard 4 12B is a free safety-classification model with vision support but no general intelligence benchmarks, designed for content moderation rather than business tasks.
Assessed May 14, 2026
Rankings consider pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and real-world applicability and are refreshed as new models launch. Feedback?
Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
How does Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B (free) stack up?
Compare side-by-side with other legacy models.
Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b:free
|
| Provider | meta-llama |
| Release Date | April 30, 2025 |
| Context Length | 163,840 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
