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Mistral Small 4 vs Llama Guard 4 12B

Compare Mistral Small 4 from Mistral AI and Llama Guard 4 12B from Meta Llama 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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Mistral Small 4
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Llama Guard 4 12B
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Mistral Small 4
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Llama Guard 4 12B

Overview

Mistral Small 4
Author
Mistral AI
Llama Guard 4 12B
Author
Meta Llama
Mistral Small 4
Context length
262Ktokens
Llama Guard 4 12B
Context length
164Ktokens
Mistral Small 4
Reasoning
Llama Guard 4 12B
Reasoning
Mistral Small 4
Input modalities
Llama Guard 4 12B
Input modalities
Mistral Small 4
Output modalities
Llama Guard 4 12B
Output modalities

Mistral Small 4 vs Llama Guard 4 12B: side-by-side summary

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

Mistral Small 4, from Mistral AI, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.15/M tokens input, $0.60/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

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.

Context window
  • Mistral Small 4: 262,144 tokens
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: 163,840 tokens
Price
  • Mistral Small 4: $0.15/M tokens input, $0.60/M tokens output
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: $0.18/M tokens input, $0.18/M tokens output
Provided by
  • Mistral Small 4: Mistral AI
  • Llama Guard 4 12B: Meta Llama
  • model details, providers and pricing
Mistral Small 4
model details, providers and pricing
Llama Guard 4 12B