Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
Analysis Summary
Meta Llama Guard 4 12B is a specialised safety model designed for content moderation and policy classification, not general-purpose reasoning or generation. It supports vision input and a 163K context window, priced at $0.18 per million tokens for both input and output.
For businesses, its value is narrow but specific: teams building content moderation pipelines, safety filters, or policy-compliance checks will find it purpose-built for those tasks. It is not suited to coding, agentic workflows, or client-facing content generation.
At $0.18/1M tokens it is cost-effective for high-volume moderation use cases. Teams should treat it as a specialist component in a broader AI stack rather than a standalone general model.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Llama Guard 4 12B is a safety-classification model with vision support and a 163K context, purpose-built for content moderation rather than general business tasks.
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Performance Profile
How Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B compares
Its 164K-token context window is larger than 61% of the models we list. At $0.18 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 54% of comparable models.
About Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
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| Provider | meta-llama |
| Release Date | April 30, 2025 |
| Context Length | 163,840 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.18 | $0.000180 |
| Output | $0.18 | $0.000180 |
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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
How much does Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B cost?
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B?
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B has a context window of 163,840 tokens (164K).
What can Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B do?
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B supports image/vision input.
Who created Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B?
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B is developed by Meta and was released on April 30, 2025.
