Grok 3 Mini Beta API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 08:08 AM

Overview

Grok 3 Mini Beta was released on April 9, 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 Beta with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
X Xai	Grok 3 Mini Beta	$0.300	$0.500	—	—	—	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Mini	$0.250	$2.000	83.8	83.7	82.8	400,000	Try
DS Deepseek	DeepSeek V3.2	$0.250	$0.380	59.3	83.7	75.1	163,840	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Tiny	$0.250	$0.250	—	—	—	32,768	Try
A Anthropic	Claude 3 Haiku	$0.250	$1.250	15.4	—	—	200,000	Try
DS Nex-AGI	DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1	$0.270	$1.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
MM Minimax	MiniMax M2.1	$0.270	$1.120	81.0	87.5	83.0	196,608	Try
DS Deepseek	DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale	$0.270	$0.410	89.6	86.3	87.1	163,840	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B	$0.280	$1.100	46.7	77.6	81.1	123,000	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi Dev 72B	$0.290	$1.150	—	—	—	131,072	Try
DS Deepseek	R1 Distill Qwen 32B	$0.290	$0.290	27.0	73.9	61.5	32,768	Try

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

Compare Providers

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

Providers

$0.600

Cheapest Input/M

$4.000

Cheapest Output/M

xAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
xAI Best Price	$0.600	$4.000	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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