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Grok Code Fast 1: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Grok Code Fast 1 is a language model from xAI, released in August 2025, with a 256K-token context window, and pricing from $0.200/M input and $1.50/M output.

Grok Code Fast 1 is a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding. Built from scratch with a brand-new model architecture, it features a pre-training corpus rich with programming-related content and post-training

Input
Text
Output
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Grok Code Fast 1 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

How Grok Code Fast 1 performs across real-world prompt categories.

Performance by conversation depth

How Grok Code Fast 1 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Grok Code Fast 1 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Grok Code Fast 1 pricing

Providers

Grok Code Fast 1 starts at $0.200 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens via xAI.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
xAI logoxAI
$0.200$1.50256.0K/10.0K
1.38
/

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 Code Fast 1 context window

Input and output token limits for Grok Code Fast 1, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
256Ktokens
10Ktokens
385 pages of text
256K
8K128K1M

Grok Code Fast 1 API

POST/v1/chat/completions

Run a request to see the response

Use it in your code

Billed at $0.20 input / $1.50 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-code-fast-1",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
    ]
)

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

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Grok Code Fast 1 latency

Grok Code Fast 1 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Grok Code Fast 1 examples

Recent arena outputs from Grok Code Fast 1, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Grok Code Fast 1 license

Grok Code Fast 1 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Grok Code Fast 1 resources

Official sources for Grok Code Fast 1: api documentation, paper or system card, official launch post.

Grok Code Fast 1 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Grok Code Fast 1 are Solar Pro 4, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Grok Code Fast 1

Models ranked just above and below Grok Code Fast 1 by LLM Stats score.

 

Solar Pro 4

Score pending
 

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Score pending
 

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)

Score pending
 

Laguna XS 2.1

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Grok Code Fast 1.

When was Grok Code Fast 1 released?

Grok Code Fast 1 was released on August 28, 2025 by xAI. This is the official Grok Code Fast 1 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Grok Code Fast 1 cost?

Grok Code Fast 1 costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 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 Code Fast 1 available via API?

Yes. Grok Code Fast 1 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 Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 was created by xAI.

What is the license for Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is Grok Code Fast 1 latency?

Grok Code Fast 1 p95 time to first token is 1.38 seconds via xAI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 is available through 1 provider including xAI.

Where is the Grok Code Fast 1 paper or technical report?

Grok Code Fast 1 has a paper or technical report available at https://data.x.ai/2025-08-26-grok-code-fast-1-model-card.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Grok Code Fast 1 against?

Common Grok Code Fast 1 comparisons include Grok Code Fast 1 vs Solar Pro 4, Grok Code Fast 1 vs Kimi K2-Thinking-0905, Grok Code Fast 1 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.