Grok 3 Mini Fast is xAI's language model with a 131K context window, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.600 / 1M input and $2.50 / 1M output. A fast variant of xAI's lightweight Grok 3 Mini thinking model, balancing speed and reasoning capability for simple logic-based tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDxai-grok-3-mini-fast
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorxAIxAI
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 1 year ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/xai.grok-3-mini-fast
$0.600$4.00N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
vercel_ai_gateway/xai/grok-3-mini-fast
$0.600$4.00N/A
xAI logo
xAI
grok-3-mini-fast-latest
$1.25$2.50$0.200$0.625$1.25$0.100

Cost Calculator

Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Grok 3 Mini131K$0.250$0.500Deprecated
Grok 3 Mini Beta131K$1.25$2.50Deprecated
Grok 3 Mini Fast131K$0.600$2.50Current
Grok 3 Mini ReasoningAvailable
Grok 3 Mini Fast High$1.25$2.50Available
Grok 3 Mini Fast High Beta$1.25$2.50Available
Grok 3 Mini High$1.25$2.50Available
Grok 3 Mini High Beta$1.25$2.50Available

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Grok 4.31.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.202.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Reasoning2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.1 Fast2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4 Fast131K$0.200$0.500
Grok 4 Fast Non-Reasoning2.0M$0.200$0.500
Grok 4256K$1.25$2.50

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