Meta: Llama Guard 3 8B

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryToolgebruik

Llama Guard 3 8B is een tekst-model voor algemene chat, analyse en productiegebruik. Het combineert stabiele algemene prestaties, een context van 131K tokens en een evenwichtig geprijsd-profiel voor betrouwbaar werk in general chat, analysis, and production workloads.

Input

$0.48/1M

Output

$0.03/1M

Cached

$0.01/1M

Batch

$0.01/1M

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Technical specifications

Llama Guard 3 8B at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

1,024

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

llama3

Released

Jul 2024

Training cutoff

Dec 2023

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 3 8B

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

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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 3 8B costs roughly $37 per month. Input is $0.48 /1M tokens and output is $0.03 /1M tokens.
Llama Guard 3 8B has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Llama Guard 3 8B supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Llama Guard 3 8B was released in July 2024, with training data cut off around December 2023.
Models in a similar class include Llama 3 70B Instruct, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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