Kimi K3 vs Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B costs 83.3x less per output token than Kimi K3 ($0.18 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- 62.3
- Overall
- 66.5
- Output $/M
- $15.00
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.18
Kimi K3 or Llama Guard 4 12B: which to pick
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama Guard 4 12B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Llama Guard 4 12B for output tokens 83.3x cheaper ($0.18 vs $15.00 per million).
No benchmark has tested both yet. Kimi K3 has results on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index; Llama Guard 4 12B has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 43.6.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a AA Agentic Index result, 50.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a MMLU Pro result, 88.0%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1335.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a Vals Index result, 53.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K3
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama Guard 4 12B
Kimi K3 $0.011, Llama Guard 4 12B $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Kimi K3 has the number, $0.81.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K3 62.3 from 6 benchmarks, Llama Guard 4 12B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Kimi K3 $15.00 against Llama Guard 4 12B $0.18 per million output tokens, 83.3x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K3 takes 1.05M tokens, Llama Guard 4 12B 164K.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index24 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 59.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1655 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 76.2 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 93.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 17.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 85.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 16.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 48.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 80.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 44.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 18.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SciCode | 59.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierCode | 44.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 25.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| WeirdML | 82.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1524.5 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1508 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1499 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1670 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1644 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1579 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.6 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.9 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 50.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1295 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1315 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1269 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1250 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1223 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1252 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1256 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1273 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1058 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench research | 79.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 16.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 42.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 53.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 33.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 46.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 12.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 72.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 1.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 10.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 47.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 32.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,165 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 90.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 88.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 46.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 93.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 94.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 60.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SimpleBench | 60.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 37.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 26.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1495 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1520 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1496 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 97.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 39.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ProofBench | 87.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1494 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1505 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 88.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 71.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 50.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1508 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1489 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1503 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1470 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1335 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1344 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1359 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1351 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1388 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1360 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1302 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench design | 77.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index28 boards measured
| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Llama Guard 4 12B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 68.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 52.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 73.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 88.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| DTBench | 91.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMCA | 52.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 34.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1476 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1485 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1457 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1481 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1466 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1529 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1490 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1494 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1460 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1492 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1472 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1485 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1458 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1489 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1494 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1471 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1453 | Not measured | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama Guard 4 12B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Llama Guard 4 12B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Llama Guard 4 12B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | MoonshotAI Kimi K3 | Meta Llama Guard 4 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Meta Llama |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | July 16, 2026 | April 30, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 164K |
| Input $/Mtok | $3.00 | $0.18 |
| Output $/Mtok | $15.00 | $0.18 |
| Coding index | 62.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.81 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K3 better than Llama Guard 4 12B for coding?
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama Guard 4 12B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama Guard 4 12B for output tokens 83.3x cheaper ($0.18 vs $15.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Llama Guard 4 12B?
Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Llama Guard 4 12B costs $0.18 and $0.18. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K3 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K3 or Llama Guard 4 12B?
Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 164K.
Has any benchmark tested both Kimi K3 and Llama Guard 4 12B?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Kimi K3 has results on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index; Llama Guard 4 12B has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 21, 2026.