# Llama 4 Scout 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.

## Specifications

| | Llama 4 Scout | Llama Guard 4 12B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Meta | Meta |
| Access | Open weights | Not served on Allocate |
| Context window | 1M tokens | n/a |
| List price, input | $0.18 / M tokens | Not served |
| List price, output | $0.59 / M tokens | Not served |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Llama community | Not listed |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | Yes |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-09-12.

## Choose Llama 4 Scout for

- Whole-document reasoning
- High-volume extraction
- Fine-tuning under the Llama 4 license

## 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?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against an unlisted window for Llama Guard 4 12B.

### Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Llama Guard 4 12B?

Both publish open weights (Llama 4 Scout: 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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[HTML page](https://allocate.network/compare/meta-llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-vs-meta-llama-guard-4-12b) · [Llama 4 Scout](https://allocate.network/models/meta-llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct.md) · [Llama Guard 4 12B](https://allocate.network/models/meta-llama-guard-4-12b.md) · [Machine-readable catalog](https://allocate.network/catalog.json)