Grok 3 Mini

Last verified July 27, 2026 · xAI pricing ↗

$0.300/1M input · $0.500/1M output · 131K context · xAI

Grok 3 Mini last cost $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $0.500 per 1M output tokens from xAI, with a 131K-token context window. A typical chat reply (1,500 tokens in, 400 out) costs $0.0006, or $6.50 per 10,000 requests.

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xAI has shut Grok 3 Mini down. You cannot buy it at the rate below. The price is kept so past spend and old estimates still reconcile, and it is excluded from the calculator’s default model list and from every ranking.

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What Grok 3 Mini Costs Per Request

At $0.300 per 1M input and $0.500 per 1M output tokens, before caching or batch discounts.

Workload	Input / output tokens	Per request	Per 10,000 requests
Chat reply	1,500 / 400	$0.0006	$6.50
RAG answer over retrieved docs	8,000 / 600	$0.0027	$27.00
Coding-agent step	30,000 / 2,000	$0.010	$100.00

Grok 3 Mini vs Similarly Priced Models

Nearest buyable models by price, with the RAG answer above (8,000 in / 600 out) priced on each.

Model	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	RAG answer
Grok 3 Mini xAI	$0.300	$0.500	131K	$0.0027
Grok Build 0.1 xAI	$1.00	$2.00	256K	$0.0092
Hunyuan HY3 Preview Tencent	$0.178	$0.595	262K	$0.0018
GPT-OSS 120B (Bedrock) OpenAI	$0.150	$0.600	16K	$0.0016

Alternatives to Grok 3 Mini

Cheaper Alternative

Hunyuan HY3 Preview

$0.178 in · $0.595 out · Tencent

3% cheaper with same or larger context

Premium Upgrade

Qwen3 Coder Next

$0.120 in · $0.800 out · Alibaba

Upgrade with 262K context and 66K max output

Same Provider

Grok Build 0.1

$1.00 in · $2.00 out · xAI

Higher tier in xAI ecosystem

Pricing Details

xAIRetired alongside the rest of the Grok 3 line. Not named on xAI's May 15, 2026 retirement notice, but absent from xAI's current model catalogue, so it cannot be bought at any price. Replacement: grok-4.3 with reasoning effort low. Price kept for historical comparison. Estimated tokens (different tokenizer).

Input / 1M tokens

$0.3

Output / 1M tokens

$0.5

Context Window

131K

Max Output

16K

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Price History

No price change recorded since 2026-07-27, when this site started tracking this model.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Grok 3 Mini pricing and usage

How much does Grok 3 Mini cost?

Grok 3 Mini costs $0.3 per 1 million input tokens and $0.5 per 1 million output tokens. This pricing is set by xAI.

What tokenizer does Grok 3 Mini use?

Grok 3 Mini uses the cl100k_base tokenizer. This tokenizer has a vocabulary of ~100,000 tokens and is widely used across many models.

What is Grok 3 Mini's context window?

Grok 3 Mini supports a context window of 131K tokens (131,072 tokens). The maximum output length is 16K tokens.

How does Grok 3 Mini compare to other models?

On an 8,000-token-in, 600-token-out RAG answer, Grok 3 Mini costs $0.0027 per request. The nearest-priced alternatives cost: Grok Build 0.1 (xAI) $0.0092, Hunyuan HY3 Preview (Tencent) $0.0018, GPT-OSS 120B (Bedrock) (OpenAI) $0.0016. The table above lists their full rates and context windows.

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