How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost per million tokens?

Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Llama Guard 4 12B?

Llama Guard 4 12B accepts up to 163,840 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Llama Guard 4 12B?

About $0.27, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Llama Guard 4 12B?

In the same price range, DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.03 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.7 Flash ($0.03 / $0.13), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 ($0.042 / $0.084) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Meta API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Meta sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Meta · live price

Llama Guard 4 12B API pricing

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...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)image input

Input: $0.18; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.18; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 164K; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Meta's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 30, 2025. Model id meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b.

What Llama Guard 4 12B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.27

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.53

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.58

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Llama Guard 4 12B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Llama Guard 4 12B price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

DeepInfra$0.18 in · $0.18 out · 164K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Meta credits for less

Llama Guard 4 12B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Llama Guard 4 12B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.18 in / $0.18 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$10.80/ month(quotes below are for $11.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Llama Guard 4 12B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B	$0.09	$0.3	$0.143	262K
Google: Gemma 4 31B	$0.09	$0.34	$0.152	262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B	$0.1	$0.15	$0.112	262K

Other Meta models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Llama 4 Maverick	$0.188	$0.652	$0.304	1.0M
Llama 4 Scout	$0.1	$0.3	$0.15	1.3M
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	$0.1	$0.32	$0.155	131K
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.201	$0.071	60K
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.05	$0.33	$0.12	131K
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.4	$0.4	$0.4	131K

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