Llama Guard 4 12B API Pricing
Meta · Budget · Llama 4 · released 2025-04. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Llama Guard 4 12B has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 32nd cheapest of 142 Budget models. Only one host, DeepInfra, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.18 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.18 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 164K
Llama Guard 4 12B market position
On blended price ($0.180 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 78% of Budget models: 32nd cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 89% of priced text models in the catalogue: 32nd cheapest of 281.
Llama Guard 4 12B licence, size and capabilities
Llama Guard 4 12B is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Llama 4, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 12B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision. Filling its 164K context window once costs $0.03 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $36 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $50 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $202 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $77 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $90 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $38 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $49 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $162 |
Llama Guard 4 12B pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
DeepInfra is the only host with a published rate, $0.18 input / $0.18 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra (the price shown above) — bf16 | $0.18 | $0.18 |
Llama Guard 4 12B price history
Llama Guard 4 12B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.18 input / $0.18 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Llama Guard 4 12B
- Next cheaper Budget model: Schematron V2 Small (inference-net) at $0.176 blended, 2% less.
- Next more expensive: Nova Lite 1.0 (Amazon) at $0.186 blended, 3% more.
Common questions about Llama Guard 4 12B pricing
- How much does Llama Guard 4 12B cost?
- Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Llama Guard 4 12B offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Llama Guard 4 12B cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Llama Guard 4 12B costs about $36 at list prices.
- Has the price of Llama Guard 4 12B changed?
- Llama Guard 4 12B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.18 input / $0.18 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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