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Llama Guard 4 12B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Compare Llama Guard 4 12B from Meta Llama and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning from Nvidia on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.

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Llama Guard 4 12B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: side-by-side summary

Llama Guard 4 12B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Llama Guard 4 12B, from Meta Llama, has a 163,840-token context window and is priced at $0.18/M tokens input, $0.18/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, from Nvidia, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.065/M tokens input, $0.18/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: 163,840 tokens
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 262,144 tokens
Price
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: $0.18/M tokens input, $0.18/M tokens output
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: $0.065/M tokens input, $0.18/M tokens output
Provided by
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: Meta Llama
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Nvidia
  • Llama Guard 4 12B model details, providers and pricing
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model details, providers and pricing
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Overview

Llama Guard 4 12B
Author
Meta Llama
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Author
Nvidia
Llama Guard 4 12B
Context length
164Ktokens
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Context length
262Ktokens
Llama Guard 4 12B
Reasoning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Reasoning
Llama Guard 4 12B
Input modalities
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Input modalities
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Output modalities
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Output modalities