What are the hardware requirements for Llama Guard 3 1B?

Llama Guard 3 1B requires a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama Guard 3 1B and how large is it?

Llama Guard 3 1B is developed by onnx-community, a model with 1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Llama Guard 3 1B?

Llama Guard 3 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama Guard 3 1B by onnx-community — 128K context

Name: Llama Guard 3 1B
Author: onnx-community

Llama Guard 3 1B is an open-source language model by onnx-community. Features: 1b LLM, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Base model:meta-llama/llama-gu... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Conversational Llama Onnx Region:us Transformers.js

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Llama-Guard-3-1B

Llama Guard 3 1B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text classification

Additional Notes

Llama-Guard-3-1B is available with ONNX weights for compatibility with Transformers.js. A temporary solution until WebML gains more traction.

LLM Name	Llama Guard 3 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Llama-Guard-3-1B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B
Model Size	1b
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	onnx-community
Model Type	llama
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256

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Text Generation
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