Context
1M
Max output
1M
Serving providers
3
Cheapest input
$1.25 /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: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
100 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
21.68s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt7%default—
GPQA Diamond91%default—
Humanity's Last Exam35%default—
IFBench81%default—
Long-Context Reasoning69%default—
MMMU-Pro75%default—
Omniscience14.8default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.3default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.8default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202646%——
TerminalBench Hard38%default—
τ²-bench93%default—

Pricing detail

cost beyond the standard rate · source: models.dev
Long context (>200K)
$2.83 / $5.67
input / output · per 1M

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $1.25 to $3.00 per 1M tokens across 3 providers, so the dearest route costs 140% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
OpenRouter$1.25$2.501
xAICheapest$1.25$2.501
Standardxai/grok-4.20
ComponentUnitStandardBatch
Text cached in/1M tok$0.20—
Text input/1M tok$1.25$1.00
Text output/1M tok$2.50$2.00
OCI$3.00$15.001

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
Input down 58% since first tracked
$0.00$5.00$10.00$15.00Apr 4Jun 22Aug 30Sep 26$2.50$1.25

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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Frequently asked questions

Grok 4.20 pricing, context and availability

How much does Grok 4.20 cost?

Grok 4.20 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens from xAI, and $2.50 per 1M output tokens from xAI. Across 3 serving providers, input prices range from $1.25 to $3.00 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of Grok 4.20?

Grok 4.20 accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 1M output tokens.

Which providers serve Grok 4.20?

Grok 4.20 is available from 3 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. xAI is currently the cheapest.

What can Grok 4.20 do?

Grok 4.20 supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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