Grok 3 Mini
by xAIChat
A lightweight model that thinks before responding. Fast, smart, and great for logic-based tasks that do not require deep domain knowledge. The raw thinking traces are accessible.
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- 2024-06-01
- Weights
- Closed
xai/grok-3-mini · also seen as grok-3-mini-latest
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-06-01
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 3 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 140.3 ± 2.3 against price
- Direct price range
- $0.30 in · $0.50 out per 1M tokens · 2 of 3 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-04-11
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streaming
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.30 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens at xAI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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