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Meta Llama

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B

meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b

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 inputs (prompt classification) and in LLM responses (response classification). It acts as an LLM—generating text in its output that indicates whether a given prompt or response is safe or unsafe, and if unsafe, it also lists the content categories violated. Llama Guard 4 was aligned to safeguard against the standardized MLCommons hazards taxonomy and designed to support multimodal Llama 4 capabilities. Specifically, it combines features from previous Llama Guard models, providing content moderation for English and multiple supported languages, along with enhanced capabilities to handle mixed text-and-image prompts, including multiple images. Additionally, Llama Guard 4 is integrated into the Llama Moderations API, extending robust safety classification to text and images.

Input
$0.18

/ 1M tokens

Output
$0.18

/ 1M tokens

Context window
163.84K

tokens

Limits

Context

163,840

tokens

Max output

16,384

10% of the context window

Parameters

12,001,097,216

Model facts

Author

Meta Llama

Tokenizer

Other

Modality

Text + Image -> Text

License

Other

Knowledge cutoff

2024-08-31

Created

Apr 30, 2025

Hugging Face

meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

Publication status

Hugging Face: verifiedLicense: publishedParameter count: published

Modalities

Input · ImageInput · TextOutput · Text

Generation controls

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