Is llama-guard-4-12b deprecated?

Q: Is llama-guard-4-12b deprecated?

No — still supported. Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model. Sources disagree on: max_output_tokens.

state=alive sunset=none days_remaining=n/a severity=low sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=max_output_tokens checked=2026-09-30 15:40Z

meta/llama-guard-4-12b

Vendor: meta. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B	163,840	163,840	$0.18	$0.18	—
openrouter	meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b	163,840	16,384	$0.18	$0.18	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm, openrouter still list it] groq/meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-09-23
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm, openrouter still list it] together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-09-23
high	modified	openrouter/meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: capabilities lost response_schema	2026-09-18
info	modified	[source artifact — 6 providers changed identically on the same day] meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: capabilities lost response_format	2026-09-15
low	added	new model openrouter/meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b (163,840 ctx)	2026-09-06
critical	deprecated	together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B: deprecation announced for 2026-08-25 (date already passed)	2026-08-28
critical	deprecated	together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B: retires 2026-08-25 (3 days ago)	2026-08-28
low	added	new model together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B (1,048,576 ctx)	2026-08-26
high	modified	meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: context_tokens cut 1,048,576 to 163,840	2026-08-26
info	deprecated	groq/meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: deprecation announced for 2026-03-05 (date already passed)	2026-08-13
info	deprecated	groq/meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b: retires 2026-03-05 (161 days ago)	2026-08-13