Deprecated on May 1, 2026. 4 providers still list it at the prices below.
Context
131K
Max output
131K
Serving providers
4
Cheapest input
$0.25 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: ARC Prize and Artificial AnalysisHeadline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
| Benchmark | Best score | Effort | Cost / task | |||||||||||||
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| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | low | $0.0131 | |||||||||||||
| CritPt | 1% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| GPQA Diamond | 79% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
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| Humanity's Last Exam | 11% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| IFBench | 46% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| LiveCodeBench | 70% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| Long-Context Reasoning | 55% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 83% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience | -6.8 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.2 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.7 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 41% | — | — | |||||||||||||
| TerminalBench Hard | 17% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
| τ²-bench | 90% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expandInput pricing runs from $0.25 to $1.25 per 1M tokens across 4 providers, so the dearest route costs 400% more than the cheapest for the same model.
| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | |||||||||||||
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| AzureCheapest | $0.25 | $1.27 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Standardazure_ai/grok-3-mini
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| OCI | $0.30 | $0.50 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Standardoci/xai.grok-3-mini
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| VercelVercel reseller quote | $0.30 | $0.50 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Standardvercel_ai_gateway/xai/grok-3-mini
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| xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Standardxai/grok-3-mini
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Input down 17% since first tracked
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$152
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Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformazure_ai/grok-3-minioci/xai.grok-3-minivercel_ai_gateway/xai/grok-3-minixai/grok-3-mini
Frequently asked questions
Grok 3 Mini pricing, context and availabilityIs Grok 3 Mini still available?
Grok 3 Mini was deprecated on 2026-05-01, but 4 serving providers still list it.
How much does Grok 3 Mini cost?
Grok 3 Mini costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens from Azure, and $0.50 per 1M output tokens from OCI. Across 4 serving providers, input prices range from $0.25 to $1.25 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window of Grok 3 Mini?
Grok 3 Mini accepts up to 131K tokens of context and can return up to 131K output tokens.
Which providers serve Grok 3 Mini?
Grok 3 Mini is available from 4 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Azure is currently the cheapest.
What can Grok 3 Mini do?
Grok 3 Mini supports tool use.
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