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Llama Guard 4 12B

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Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification.

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About Llama Guard 4 12B

Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification.

Notes

Llama Guard 4 12B is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Key facts

What we have checked

Input price
$0.180 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Output price
$0.180 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on deepinfra
$0.144 per million input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on deepinfra
$0.144 per million output tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Latest version
meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
Checked OpenRouter models API
Tokens served on OpenRouter in a day
262.5M (for 10 Nov 2026)
Checked OpenRouter model activity (748 of 748 series)
Tool calls on OpenRouter in a day
0 (for 10 Nov 2026)
Checked OpenRouter model activity (748 of 748 series)

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API access

How to call it

Call via OpenRouter with model id `meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b`.

  • openrouter · meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b · Docs

OpenRouter id: meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b

Price

What Llama Guard 4 12B costs, over time

Input price

$0.180 to $0.180

US dollars per million input tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Output price

$0.180 to $0.180

US dollars per million output tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Prices by host

HostPriceOver timeChecked
deepinfraInput$0.144 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
deepinfraOutput$0.144 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API

Usage

How much Llama Guard 4 12B is used

Tokens served a day

272.6M to 262.5M

tokens a day on OpenRouter. 19 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 53 readings.

Source: OpenRouter model activity (748 of 748 series). Checked .

Sources

Where this comes from

A source shows what was published when we checked it. It does not certify security, performance or a working installation. Read our method.

Changelog

What changed

No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.

USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Llama Guard 4 12B is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
2.8B ▲9.3%
Requests, last 7 days
2.2M
Tool calls, last 7 days
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Price per million tokens
$0.18 in · $0.18 out
0500M1B19 Sept: 273M tokens, 368K requests20 Sept: 273M tokens, 344K requests21 Sept: 383M tokens, 543K requests22 Sept: 490M tokens, 615K requests23 Sept: 324M tokens, 480K requests24 Sept: 304M tokens, 388K requests25 Sept: 316M tokens, 388K requests26 Sept: 329M tokens, 386K requests27 Sept: 332M tokens, 388K requests28 Sept: 340M tokens, 399K requests29 Sept: 221M tokens, 277K requests30 Sept: 181M tokens, 244K requests1 Oct: 193M tokens, 286K requests2 Oct: 195M tokens, 259K requests3 Oct: 164M tokens, 197K requests4 Oct: 167M tokens, 205K requests5 Oct: 185M tokens, 221K requests6 Oct: 167M tokens, 190K requests7 Oct: 179M tokens, 207K requests8 Oct: 182M tokens, 199K requests9 Oct: 164M tokens, 175K requests10 Oct: 179M tokens, 184K requests11 Oct: 211M tokens, 212K requests12 Oct: 158M tokens, 186K requests13 Oct: 154M tokens, 187K requests14 Oct: 155M tokens, 175K requests15 Oct: 201M tokens, 190K requests16 Oct: 178M tokens, 200K requests17 Oct: 174M tokens, 182K requests18 Oct: 213M tokens, 256K requests19 Oct: 215M tokens, 246K requests20 Oct: 713M tokens, 726K requests21 Oct: 287M tokens, 306K requests22 Oct: 215M tokens, 207K requests23 Oct: 193M tokens, 183K requests24 Oct: 194M tokens, 201K requests25 Oct: 226M tokens, 214K requests26 Oct: 241M tokens, 235K requests27 Oct: 259M tokens, 260K requests28 Oct: 388M tokens, 352K requests29 Oct: 278M tokens, 315K requests30 Oct: 340M tokens, 395K requests31 Oct: 282M tokens, 374K requests1 Nov: 592M tokens, 365K requests2 Nov: 295M tokens, 346K requests3 Nov: 415M tokens, 344K requests4 Nov: 933M tokens, 424K requests5 Nov: 505M tokens, 331K requests6 Nov: 262M tokens, 323K requests7 Nov: 327M tokens, 293K requests8 Nov: 319M tokens, 227K requests9 Nov: 222M tokens, 250K requests10 Nov: 262M tokens, 354K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct31 Oct10 NovSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE

What you can do with Llama Guard 4 12B.

Listed specifications; no EDNA task evaluation has been run. Sources checked 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.

DeveloperMeta
Exact model identifiermeta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b
Inputimage, text
Outputtext
Tool calling
Not established
Structured output
Not established
Reasoning controls
Not established
Availability
available
Price basis
token
Licence verification
llama4, open weights (access request)
Context length
164K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
31 Aug 2024
Developer release date
Not established
First seen in the catalogue
30 Apr 2025
Listed retirement date
Not established
Inspect the sources and their scope
catalogue source ↗

meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: listed route capabilities, availability and prices; provider endpoints can differ.

Checked 2026-11-07
openrouter.ai ↗

Source for first seen, context length, input, knowledge cutoff, output.

Checked 2026-11-07
Licence source ↗

Licence declared in the meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B model repository on Hugging Face, which holds the weights files behind an access request. Read the licence terms before use.

Checked 2026-11-07
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