Grok 3 Mini is xAI's language model with a 131K context window, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.25 / 1M input and $0.5 / 1M output. A lightweight thinking LLM from xAI that reasons before responding, optimized for logic-based tasks with accessible raw reasoning traces.
Specifications
Canonical IDxai-grok-3-mini
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorxAIxAI
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#230
Math Index
#65
MMLU-Pro
#71
GPQA
#165
HLE
#228
LiveCodeBench
#83
AIME
#6
IFBench
#210
Time to First Token
#476
SciCode
#157
MATH-500
#3
AIME 2025
#65
LCR
#228
TerminalBench Hard
#176
TAU2
#63
Output TPS
#174

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
xai:grok3mini
$0.25$1.27
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/xai.grok-3-mini
$0.3$0.5
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
vercel_ai_gateway/xai/grok-3-mini
$0.3$0.5

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Grok 3 Mini131K$0.250$0.500Current
Grok 3 Mini Beta131K——Deprecated
Grok 3 Mini Fast131K$0.600$4.00Deprecated
Grok 3 Mini Reasoning————Available
Grok 3 Mini Fast High————Available
Grok 3 Mini Fast High Beta————Available
Grok 3 Mini High————Available
Grok 3 Mini High Beta————Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Grok 4.7—524K$2.00$6.00
Grok 4.6—524K$2.00$6.00
Grok 4.5—500K$2.00$6.00
Grok 4.3—1.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.3 Batch—1.0M$1.00$2.00
Grok 4.20—2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent—2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta—2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning—2.0M$1.25$2.50
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent—2.0M$1.00$2.00

Model IDs

azure_ai/global/grok-3-mini
azure_ai/grok-3-mini
grok-3-mini
grok-3-mini-reasoning
oci/xai.grok-3-mini
vercel_ai_gateway/xai/grok-3-mini
x-ai/grok-3-mini
xai-grok-3-mini
xai/grok-3-mini
xai/grok-3-mini-latest