# llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3

> llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 is an open-weight language model from NVIDIA, released on 28 Oct 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 128K-token context window and up to 4K output tokens per response.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/llama-3-1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** NVIDIA
- **Release date:** 28 Oct 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Context window:** 128K (128,000 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Max output:** 4K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Input:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)
- **Tool calling:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/nvidia/models/nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3.toml)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | Free | – | 128K |

## FAQ

### What is the context window of llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3?

llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K) and can generate up to 4,096 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### Is llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 open source?

llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 is an open-weight model. Check the license terms before commercial use.

### When was llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 released?

NVIDIA released llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3 on 28 Oct 2025, according to models.dev.

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