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Grok 3 Mini

Complete specs, pricing, and benchmark data for Grok 3 Mini by xAI. Last verified 2026-04-03.

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Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.300

Output / 1M tokens

$0.500

Cached Input / 1M

$0.075

Context & Output

Context Window

128K

Max Output

16,384

TTFT

180ms

Speed

110 tok/s

Benchmarks

Arena ELO

1220

Coding ELO

1200

Reasoning ELO

1210

HumanEval

85

MMLU

82

MATH

70

GPQA

48

Price History (Input $/M tokens)

Strengths
  • +Very affordable pricing
  • +Fast response times
  • +Good for simple tasks
  • +Reasoning capabilities at low cost
Limitations
  • -No vision support
  • -Smaller ecosystem
  • -Less capable than full Grok 3

Best For

ChatbotsCost SensitiveLightweight Tasks

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