xAI: Grok 3 Mini
🇺🇸 xAI · Grok 3
Overview
xAI: Grok 3 Mini is a large language model API from xAI, part of its Grok 3 model family. At $0.300 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget tier — among the cheaper options for high-throughput or cost-sensitive workloads. Output tokens cost about 2× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. The 131K-token context window — around 197 pages of text — comfortably handles long documents, multi-file code, or extended conversations. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $0.300 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $0.500 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.075 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.0050 |
- Provider
- xAI
- Model Family
- Grok 3
- Version String
- x-ai/grok-3-mini
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- Output Limit
- — tokens
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.300 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.075 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- xAI: Grok 3 Mini Input price: $0.3/M tokens
- xAI: Grok 3 Mini Output price: $0.5/M tokens
- Context window: 131,072 tokens
- Provider: xAI
- Model family: Grok 3
- Modalities: Text
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily