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Grok 3 Mini

Deprecated

Grok 3 Mini is xAI logoxAI's language model with a 131K context window, available from 5 providers, starting at $0.250 / 1M input and $0.500 / 1M output. A lightweight thinking model from xAI that reasons before responding, optimized for logic-based tasks without requiring deep domain knowledge.
Spec
Canonical IDxai-grok-3-mini
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorxAIxAI
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 10 months ago
Deprecation Date
Intelligence Index
32.1
#54
Coding Index
25.2
#71
Math Index
84.7
#23
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#36
GPQA
0.8
#45
HLE
0.1
#60
LiveCodeBench
0.7
#39
AIME
0.9
#3
IFBench
0.5
#78
Time to First Token
0.45s
#172
SciCode
0.4
#34
MATH-500
1.0
#2
AIME 2025
0.8
#23
LCR
0.5
#62
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#75
TAU2
0.9
#15
Output TPS

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
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
global/grok-3-mini
$0.250$1.27N/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
x-ai/grok-3-mini
$0.300$0.500$0.075
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
xai.grok-3-mini
$0.300$0.500N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
xai/grok-3-mini
$0.300$0.500$0.075
xAI logo
xAI
grok-3-mini
$0.300$0.500$0.075$0.150$0.250$0.037

Regional pricing

Provider-specific pricing that varies by region.
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
16 regions
RegionStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Global
Global$0.250$1.27
Asia Pacific
Southeast Asia (Singapore)/ southeastasia$0.330$1.66
Europe
France Central (Paris)/ francecentral$0.275$1.50
Germany West Central (Frankfurt)/ germanywestcentral$0.300$1.38
Italy North (Milan)/ italynorth$0.275$1.38
Sweden Central (Gävle)/ swedencentral$0.275$1.50
West Europe (Netherlands)/ westeurope$0.330$1.66
US
Central US (Iowa)/ centralus$0.275$1.38
East US (Virginia)/ eastus$0.275$1.38
East US 2 (Virginia)/ eastus2$0.275$1.38
North Central US (Illinois)/ northcentralus$0.275$1.38
South Central US (Texas)/ southcentralus$0.275$1.38
West Central US (Wyoming)/ westcentralus$0.275$1.38
West US (California)/ westus$0.275$1.38
West US 2 (Washington)/ westus2$0.275$1.38
West US 3 (Phoenix)/ westus3$0.275$1.38

Cost Calculator

Preset:
Compares every provider & tier in USD

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Grok 3 Mini131K$0.250$0.500Current
Grok 3 Mini Beta131K$0.300$0.500Deprecated
Grok 3 Mini Fast Beta131K$0.300$0.500Available
Grok 3 Mini Fast Beta131K$0.300$0.500Available

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent2.0M$2.00$6.00
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent Beta2.0M$2.00$6.00
Grok 4 20 Non-Reasoning2.0M
Grok 4 20 Reasoning2.0M
Grok 4 20131K$3.00$15.00
Grok 4.1 Fast2.0M$0.200$0.500
Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning2.0M$0.200$0.500
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning2.0M$0.200$0.500
Grok 4 Non-Reasoning2.0M$2.00$6.00
Grok 4 Reasoning2.0M$2.00$6.00

Model IDs