# Llama Guard 4 12B vs Claude Opus 4.8

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 Guard 4 12B | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Meta | Anthropic |
| Access | Not served on Allocate | API only |
| Context window | n/a | 200K tokens |
| List price, input | Not served | $5 / M tokens |
| List price, output | Not served | $25 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Not listed | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | No |

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

## Choose Llama Guard 4 12B for

- Prompt and reply moderation
- Policy labelling
- Guardrails in front of agents

## Choose Claude Opus 4.8 for

- Hardest reasoning problems
- High-stakes analysis
- Escalation tier for agents

## Common questions

### Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8: 200,000 tokens (200K) against an unlisted window for Llama Guard 4 12B.

### Can I fine-tune Llama Guard 4 12B or Claude Opus 4.8?

Llama Guard 4 12B publishes open weights (Not listed) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Claude Opus 4.8 is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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[HTML page](https://allocate.network/compare/meta-llama-guard-4-12b-vs-opus-4-8) · [Llama Guard 4 12B](https://allocate.network/models/meta-llama-guard-4-12b.md) · [Claude Opus 4.8](https://allocate.network/models/opus-4-8.md) · [Machine-readable catalog](https://allocate.network/catalog.json)