Meta Llama Guard 4 12B vs Tencent Hy-MT2-1.8B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Hy-MT2-1.8B is 2.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Llama Guard 4 12B accepts longer prompts: 164K vs 8K tokens.
- Hy-MT2-1.8B's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 98.5%.
- Hy-MT2-1.8B is the newer model (released 2026-08-20).
| Llama Guard 4 12B | Hy-MT2-1.8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Meta | Tencent |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2026-08-20 |
| Input / 1M | $0.18 | $0.044 |
| Output / 1M | $0.18 | $0.177 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.18 | $0.077 |
| Context | 164K | 8K |
| Max output | 16K | 4K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.18 | $0.177 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 98.5% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Llama Guard 4 12B
$13.50 per month$0.45 per day
Hy-MT2-1.8B
$5.29 per month$0.18 per day
Hy-MT2-1.8B saves $8.21 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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