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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
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.250
$2.000
83.8
83.7
82.8
400,000
Try
$0.250
$0.380
59.3
83.7
75.1
163,840
Try
$0.250
$0.250
32,768
Try
$0.250
$1.250
15.4
200,000
Try
$0.270
$1.000
131,072
Try
$0.270
$1.120
81.0
87.5
83.0
196,608
Try
$0.270
$0.410
89.6
86.3
87.1
163,840
Try
$0.280
$1.100
46.7
77.6
81.1
123,000
Try
$0.290
$1.150
131,072
Try
$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.

1
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
xAI
Best Price
$0.600
$4.000
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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