xAI: Grok 3

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionTool use

xAI: Grok 3 is a text model for coding, debugging, and technical work. It combines strong coding performance with a 131K tokens context window and a premium profile. Use it for coding, debugging, and technical writing when quality, speed, and cost matters. It is a practical choice for teams that need reliable output, flexible deployment, and room to scale.

Input

$3.00/1M

Output

$15.00/1M

Cached

$0.75/1M

Batch

$1.50/1M

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Technical specifications

Grok 3 at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

grok

Released

Feb 2025

Training cutoff

Nov 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

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What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Grok 3

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Grok 3 costs roughly $825 per month. Input is $3.00 /1M tokens and output is $15.00 /1M tokens.
Grok 3 has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Grok 3 supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Grok 3 was released in February 2025, with training data cut off around November 2024.
Models in a similar class include Grok 3 Beta, Grok 4, Grok 4.20. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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