Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionTool use

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B is a multimodal model for vision-language understanding. It combines multimodal input handling and image understanding with a 164K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for vision-language understanding and content analysis when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$0.18/1M

Output

$0.18/1M

Cached

$0.01/1M

Batch

$0.03/1M

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Technical specifications

Llama Guard 4 12B at a glance.

Memory

163,840

tokens

Max reply

1,024

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

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Released

Apr 2025

Training cutoff

Aug 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Llama Guard 4 12B

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Llama Guard 4 12B costs roughly $21 per month. Input is $0.18 /1M tokens and output is $0.18 /1M tokens.
Llama Guard 4 12B has a 163,840-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 30,720 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Llama Guard 4 12B supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Llama Guard 4 12B was released in April 2025, with training data cut off around August 2024.
Models in a similar class include Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct, Llama 4 Scout. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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