Is Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct or Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B cheaper?

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B is cheaper on output tokens ($0.18 vs $0.34 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct or Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B?

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B has the larger context window (164K tokens).

Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct vs Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B is cheaper on output tokens, while Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B offers a larger context window. Choose Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct or Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
Provider	Meta	Meta
Input / 1M tokens	$0.05	$0.18
Output / 1M tokens	$0.34	$0.18
Context window	131K	164K
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