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Grok 3 Mini

131K ctxText Tools Reasoning

Released Feb 19, 2025 · 27B tokens this week · 2 providers

Overview

A small reasoning-capable Grok that thinks before answering at a fraction of flagship cost. Good for quantitative tasks on a tight budget. Exposes its reasoning effort as a request parameter.

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Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDER		MAX OUT		OUTPUT /M				QUANT
xAICheapest	131K	33K	$0.30	$0.50	187ms	130	99.70%	Full
Azure AI Foundry	131K	33K	$0.34	$0.56	600ms	112	99.55%	Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3.2$0.37

Grok 3 Mini$0.45

Gemini 3 Flash$1.95

GPT-5.2$10.94

Claude Sonnet 4.5$12.00

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "x-ai/grok-3-mini",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'