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Llama Guard 4 12B API

Multimodal safety model from Llama 4 Scout, classifying text and images for safe LLM prompts and responses.

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Llama Guard 4 12B API Usage

Endpoint

meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

RUN INFERENCE

How to use Llama Guard 4 12B

1. Use Llama Guard as a standalone classifier

Use this code snippet in your command line to run inference on Llama Guard 4 12B:

    
      curl -v -X POST https://api.together.xyz/inference \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOGETHER_API_KEY" \
        -d '{
        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B",
        "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "a horse is a horse" } ]
      }'

2. Use Llama Guard as a filter to safeguard responses from 200+ models

Use this code snippet in your command line to run inference of any of our 200+ models together with Llama Guard (the only change is adding the safety_model parameter):

    
      curl -v -X POST https://api.together.xyz/inference \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOGETHER_API_KEY" \
        -d '{
        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct",
        "max_tokens": 32,
        "prompt": "a horse is a horse",
        "temperature": 0.1,
        "safety_model": "meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B"
      }'

Model details

Prompting Llama Guard 4 12B

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