Models · xAI
Grok-3 Mini
Grok-3 Mini is a faster, lighter version of Grok-3 that retains much of its reasoning ability at a dramatically lower price. Perfect for production workloads that need speed without sacrificing too much quality.
Input $0.30 per 1M tokens
Output $1.50 per 1M tokens
Context 131K tokens · $1.80 combined per 1M
Benchmark performance
Source: Artificial Analysis. Updated 2026-09-20.
Key strengths
- — Much faster than full Grok-3
- — Dramatically more affordable
- — Good reasoning for everyday tasks
- — Suitable for real-time applications
Best use cases
- Real-time chat applications
- High-volume content generation
- Customer support automation
- Cost-sensitive reasoning workloads
Pricing details
| Input (per 1M tokens) | $0.30 |
| Output (per 1M tokens) | $1.50 |
| Context window | 131K tokens |
| Architecture | Compact transformer based on Grok-3 architecture, 131K context, optimized for speed |
| Provider | xAI |
Faster, lighter Grok-3
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