DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 vs Llama Guard 4 12B
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LabDeepseekMeta
AccessOpen weightsNot served on Allocate
Context window160K tokensn/a
List price, input$3 / M tokensNot served
List price, output$7 / M tokensNot served
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseMITNot listed
Fine-tunableYesYes
Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-09-12.
Choose DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 for
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)
Choose Llama Guard 4 12B for
- Prompt and reply moderation
- Policy labelling
- Guardrails in front of agents
Common questions
Which has the bigger context window?
DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4: 163,840 tokens (160K) against an unlisted window for Llama Guard 4 12B.
Can I fine-tune DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 or Llama Guard 4 12B?
Both publish open weights (DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4: MIT; Llama Guard 4 12B: Not listed), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.
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