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Llama Guard 4 12B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for Llama Guard 4 12B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.

Meta

Llama Guard 4 12B

Llama Guard 4 is a Llama 4 Scout-derived multimodal pretrained model, fine-tuned for content safety classification. Similar to previous versions, it can be used to classify content in both LLM...

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Alibaba

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and...

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Technical Specifications

SpecificationLlama Guard 4 12BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba
Context Window163,840 tokens131,072 tokens
Agent SuitabilityN/AN/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)N/AN/A
Deployment Modelself hostableself hostable
Production Stabilitystablestable
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2025-04-302024-09-19

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

Llama Guard 4 12B

$0.18

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

$0.36

Output Price per Million Tokens

Llama Guard 4 12B

$0.18

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

$0.40

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
N/Avs8530.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
N/Avs8660.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
N/Avs7460.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
N/Avs4800.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
N/Avs8820.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
N/Avs912.0%
Llama Guard 4 12B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama Guard 4 12B Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.