Llama Guard 3 8B API Pricing

Llama Guard 3 8B pricing by provider

5 listings across 5 providers. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

† This price differs from the other providers by more than 8x and is left out of the headline price. Check the provider's pricing page.

What Llama Guard 3 8B costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Use Llama Guard 3 8B with LiteLLM

Call Llama Guard 3 8B through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: llama-guard-3-8b
    litellm_params:
      model: deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-8B
      api_key: os.environ/DEEPINFRA_API_KEY

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "llama-guard-3-8b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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