Grok-3 Mini: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Grok-3 Mini is a language model from xAI, released in February 2025, with multimodal input.
Grok 3 Mini is a streamlined version of xAI's Grok 3 AI model, designed for quicker response times while maintaining utility. It's tailored for users who require speed over the comprehensive capabilities of the full Grok 3 model, making it
Grok-3 Mini benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
How Grok-3 Mini performs across real-world prompt categories.
Performance by conversation depth
How Grok-3 Mini holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Grok-3 Mini Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Tue Aug 25 2026Grok-3 Mini pricing
Providers
Grok-3 Mini starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens via xAI.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 xAI | $0.300 | — | $0.500 | 128.0K/8.0K | 0.70 | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Grok-3 Mini context window
Input and output token limits for Grok-3 Mini, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Grok-3 Mini API
Available from the model provider
Grok-3 Mini has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.
Read the official API documentationGrok-3 Mini latency
Grok-3 Mini time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Grok-3 Mini examples
Recent arena outputs from Grok-3 Mini, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Grok-3 Mini license
Grok-3 Mini is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of November 2024.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- November 2024
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Grok-3 Mini resources
Official sources for Grok-3 Mini: api documentation.
Grok-3 Mini vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Grok-3 Mini are Grok-3, ChatGPT-4o Latest, LongCat-Flash-Thinking. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Grok-3 Mini
Models ranked just above and below Grok-3 Mini by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Grok-3 Mini.