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LlamaGuard 3 8B

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LlamaGuard 3 8B is Meta's language model with a 131K context window and up to 16K output tokens, available from 5 providers, starting at $0.02 / 1M input and $0.03 / 1M output. An 8B parameter content safety model for classifying harmful content in LLM prompts and responses across multiple risk categories.
Specifications
Canonical IDmeta-llamaguard-3-8b
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorMetaMeta
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
HuggingFace Likes291
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)131,512
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)4,949,411
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 3 years ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cloudflare Workers AI logo
Cloudflare Workers AI
@cf/meta/llama-guard-3-8b
$0.484$0.03
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
$0.055$0.055
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/llama-guard-3-8b
$0.2$0.2
Nebius logo
Nebius
nebius/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
$0.02$0.06
SambaNova logo
SambaNova
sambanova/Meta-Llama-Guard-3-8B
$0.3$0.3

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host LlamaGuard 3 8B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hrus-east4
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hrus-east-1
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hrus-east4
7 more instances can run LlamaGuard 3 8B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
LlamaGuard 3 8B131K$0.020$0.030Current
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.200Deprecating
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct131K$0.015$0.020Deprecated
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct131K$0.027$0.080Deprecated
Llama 3.2 11B128K$0.160$0.160Available
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Deprecated
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct200K$0.020$0.030Deprecated
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Available
Llama 3.1 70B128K$0.360$0.360Available
Llama 3.1 8B131K$0.030$0.050Available
Llama 3 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Deprecated

Model IDs

@cf/meta/llama-guard-3-8b
accounts/fireworks/models/llama-guard-3-8b
cloudflare/@cf/meta/llama-guard-3-8b
deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/llama-guard-3-8b
meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b
meta-llamaguard-3-8b
meta-textgeneration-llama-guard-3-8b
meta-textgenerationneuron-llama-guard-3-8b
nebius/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
sambanova/Meta-Llama-Guard-3-8B