Llama Guard 4 12B vs Qwen 3.5
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.
LabMetaQwen
AccessNot served on AllocateOpen weights
Context windown/a256K tokens
List price, inputNot served$0.6 / M tokens
List price, outputNot served$3.6 / M tokens
Cached inputn/a$0.35 / M tokens
LicenseNot listedApache 2.0
Fine-tunableYesYes
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 Qwen 3.5 for
- Multilingual support agents
- Translation-adjacent workflows
- Fine-tuning under Apache 2.0
Common questions
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen 3.5: 262,144 tokens (256K) against an unlisted window for Llama Guard 4 12B.
Can I fine-tune Llama Guard 4 12B or Qwen 3.5?
Both publish open weights (Llama Guard 4 12B: Not listed; Qwen 3.5: Apache 2.0), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.
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