xAI: Grok 4.3
🇺🇸 xAI · Grok 4.3
Overview
xAI: Grok 4.3 is a large language model API from xAI, part of its Grok 4.3 model family. Priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, it occupies the mid-range, balancing capability against running cost. Output tokens cost about 2× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. An exceptionally large 1M-token context window (≈1,500 pages of text) means entire repositories or document collections can be processed without chunking. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image, File input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 38 (B grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. 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 | $1.25 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $2.50 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.200 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.0050 |
- Provider
- xAI
- Model Family
- Grok 4.3
- Version String
- x-ai/grok-4.3
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text, Image, File
- Context Window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- — tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Most Intelligent & Fastest xAI most intelligent and fastest model built to date. Recommended for all use cases. Official
- Affordable Pricing $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens. Competitive pricing for frontier capabilities. Official
Best For
- General Purpose AI Tasks Recommended for all use cases including chat, coding, images, videos, and voice. Official
Weakness
- Knowledge Cutoff Knowledge cutoff of November 2024. No access to realtime events without search tools enabled. Official
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 | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $2.50 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.200 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- xAI: Grok 4.3 Input price: $1.25/M tokens
- xAI: Grok 4.3 Output price: $2.5/M tokens
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Provider: xAI
- Model family: Grok 4.3
- Modalities: Text, Image, File
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily