AllocateMeta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct vs Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B is not currently in the Allocate serving catalog, so this page lists no prices for it: every price on this site comes from the live catalog.
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Llama Guard 4 12BLabMetaMeta
AccessOpen weightsNot served on Allocate
Context window4K tokensn/a
List price, input$3.5 / M tokensNot served
List price, output$3.5 / M tokensNot served
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseLlama communityNot listed
Fine-tunableYesYes
Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-09-12.
Choose Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct for
- Training toward a model you own
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?
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: 4,096 tokens (4K) against an unlisted window for Llama Guard 4 12B.
Can I fine-tune Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct or Llama Guard 4 12B?
Both publish open weights (Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: Llama community; 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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