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Grok 3 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Grok 3 was released on June 10, 2025. Pricing starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Xai.

Context Window
131K
tokens
Pricing
Input$3.00
Output$15.00
Cached$0.750
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output63 tok/s
TTFT0.73s
median latency
Capabilities
ToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Grok 3 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$3.000
$15.000
42.5
79.9
69.3
131,072
Try
$2.500
$10.000
128,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
8,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
8,000
Try
$2.500
$12.500
31.7
73.3
56.9
1,000,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
31.7
52.1
128,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
131,072
Try
$3.000
$15.000
200,000
Try
$3.000
$4.000
16,385
Try
$3.000
$15.000
59.0
86.0
72.7
1,000,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
81.9
86.6
87.7
256,000
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Grok 3 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

3
Providers
$3.000
Cheapest Input/M
$15.000
Cheapest Output/M
Vercel
Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
V
Vercel
Best Price
$3.000
$15.000
-
xAI
xAI
Best Price
$3.000
$15.000
99.9%
A
Azure
Best Price
$3.000
$15.000
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Community Rankings

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
25.0 (62th pct)
Coding
19.8 (56th pct)
Math
58.0 (54th pct)
MMLU Pro
79.9 (62th pct)
GPQA
69.3 (62th pct)
LiveCodeBench
42.5 (46th pct)
AIME
33.0 (54th pct)
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Grok 3 costs $0.003000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.015000 per 1,000 output tokens.
Grok 3 is available from 3 provider(s). Vercel offers the best price.
We compare Grok 3 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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