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Grok 3 Mini API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

Grok 3 Mini was released on June 10, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $0.500 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$0.300
Output$0.500
Cached$0.075
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
ToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Grok 3 Mini with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.300
$1.200
163,840
Try
$0.300
$2.500
62.5
83.6
76.6
1,048,576
Try
$0.300
$1.200
65,536
Try
$0.300
$1.200
84.8
204,800
Try
$0.300
$0.900
41.1
75.2
56.6
131,072
Try
$0.300
$2.500
32,768
Try
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.300
$0.900
256,000
Try
$0.300
$2.500
49.5
80.9
68.3
1,048,576
Try

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

Compare Providers

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

3
Providers
$0.250
Cheapest Input/M
$0.500
Cheapest Output/M
Azure
Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
A
Azure
Best Price
$0.250
$1.270
-
V
Vercel
$0.300
$0.500
-
xAI
xAI
$0.600
$4.000
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Grok 3 Mini costs $0.000300 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000500 per 1,000 output tokens.
Grok 3 Mini is available from 3 provider(s). Azure offers the best price.
We compare Grok 3 Mini with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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