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Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is a language model from xAI, released in November 2025, with multimodal input, a 2M-token context window, and pricing from $0.200/M input and $0.500/M output.

Bringing the next generation of tool-calling agents to the xAI API. Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is a high-speed variant optimized for faster inference while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities through thinking tokens.

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning pricing

Providers

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning starts at $0.200 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens via xAI.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
xAI logoxAI
$0.200$0.5002.0M/30.0K
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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-4.1 Fast Reasoning context window

Input and output token limits for Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
2Mtokens
30Ktokens
3.0k pages of text
2M
8K128K1M

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning API

POST/v1/chat/completions

Run a request to see the response

Use it in your code

Billed at $0.20 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="grok-4-1-fast-reasoning",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning latency

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning examples

Recent arena outputs from Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning license

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning resources

Official sources for Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.

FAQ

Common questions about Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning.

When was Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning released?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning was released on November 17, 2025 by xAI. This is the official Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning cost?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens through the LLM Stats API, which works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK. Across tracked providers, the lowest price is $0.20 per million input tokens via xAI.

Is Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning available via API?

Yes. Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is available through the LLM Stats API and works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point your client at the gateway base URL and pass the model name. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning was created by xAI.

What is the license for Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is released under the Proprietary license.

Is Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning multimodal?

Yes, Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning is available through 1 provider including xAI.

Where is the Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning paper or technical report?

Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning has a paper or technical report available at https://x.ai/news/grok-4.1. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.