Grok-3
Grok-3 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Grok 4.3 before starting new work.
- Family
- Grok 3
- Released
- 2025-02-17
- Context
- 131k
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-04
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 4 routes · Chutes AI
This model is deprecated. xAI recommends switching to Grok 4.3.
About
Grok-3 is a 2025 xAI model confirmed for May 15, 2026 retirement; use Grok 4.3 for current API work.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chutes AI | $0.800 | $2.40 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $3.00 | $15.00 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $3.00 | $15.00 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(8)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3 | 2026-04Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1405.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 78.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 79.9 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 84.6 | —Observed 2025-02-17 | — | Source |
| AIME 2025 | 93.3 | —Observed 2025-02-17 | — | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 79.4 | —Observed 2025-02-17 | — | Source |
| HumanEval | 94.5 | —Observed 2025-02-17 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Cheapest of 4 routes · Chutes AI