xAI (Grok)

Grok 3

The original Grok 3 reasoning model from xAI's first-party API.

ActiveReleased April 3, 2025Available from 4 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: xAI API docs, xAI console, Metadata verification, Field resolution verification

Price per 1M tokens
$3 in / $15 out
Context window131,072
Input
  • Text
Output
  • Text
Priced across4 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$3 / M
Output$15 / M

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Estimated monthly cost
$1.5K
at current list prices
Fresh input$600
Output incl. thinking$900
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The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformRegionInput / MOutput / MBatchAccess
xAILowest
-$3$15-First-party API
Azure AI Foundry
-$3$15-Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Data zone
-$3.3$16.5-Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Regional
$3.3$16.5-Direct

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Price history

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No changePriced at $3 / $15 per 1M since April 20, 2026.

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Grok 4.6
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$2 / $6 in / out per 1M
Grok 4.5
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$2 / $6 in / out per 1M
Grok 4.3
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$1.25 / $2.5 in / out per 1M
Grok 4.20
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$2 / $6 in / out per 1M
Grok 3 Mini
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$0.3 / $0.5 in / out per 1M

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