Llama Guard 3 8B API Pricing
Live token cost for Llama Guard 3 8B from Meta. Use the figures below for budgeting, then tune your exact request mix in the interactive calculator. Prices refresh every 24 hours from OpenRouter.
Capabilities
Llama Guard 3 8B cost at scale
Estimated monthly cost across common production volumes. Assumes 30-day months and the request shapes shown.
| Tier | Requests / day | In / out tokens | $ / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 1,000 | 500 / 200 | $7.38 |
| Startup | 10,000 | 1,500 / 500 | $220.50 |
| Growth | 100,000 | 3,000 / 800 | $4,392.00 |
| Enterprise | 1,000,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $117,000.00 |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Llama Guard 3 8B cost?
Llama Guard 3 8B costs $0.48 per 1M input tokens and $0.03 per 1M output tokens. A typical 1,500-token in / 500-token out request costs $0.00073.
Does Llama Guard 3 8B support cached input?
No. Llama Guard 3 8B does not currently expose cached-input pricing through Meta. Every input token is billed at the full rate.
What is the Llama Guard 3 8B context window?
Llama Guard 3 8B supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
What is Llama Guard 3 8B good for?
Llama Guard 3 8B is a good fit for general-purpose LLM tasks via the Meta API — chat, code, writing, summarization. For other use cases, run your specific input/output mix through the interactive calculator to compare against alternative models.