Grok-3
Grok-3 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Grok 4.3 before starting new work.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 131k context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Family
- Grok 3
- Released
- 2025-02-17
- Context
- 131k
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-04
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
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.
Grok-3 is a proprietary model in the Grok 3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 131k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, xAI Console, Chutes AI, and 1 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.8 input and $2.4 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Aider Polyglot 53.3, Chatbot Arena 1405.0, and Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding 78.0.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
3 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
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 | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3 | 2026-04 | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards |
| Chatbot Arena | 1405.0 | — | https://lmarena.ai |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 78.0 | — | https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/ |
| MMLU PRO | 79.9 | — | https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 84.6 | — | https://x.ai/blog/grok-3 |
| AIME 2025 | 93.3 | — | https://x.ai/blog/grok-3 |
| LiveCodeBench | 79.4 | — | https://x.ai/blog/grok-3 |
| HumanEval | 94.5 | — | https://x.ai/blog/grok-3 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Grok-3?
Grok-3 has a context window of 131k tokens.
How much does Grok-3 cost?
Grok-3 pricing ranges from $0.8/1M to $3/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Grok-3 released?
Grok-3 was released on 2025-02-17.
Which providers offer Grok-3?
Grok-3 is available from 4 providers: OpenRouter, xAI Console, Chutes AI, Microsoft Foundry.
What benchmarks has Grok-3 been tested on?
Grok-3 has been evaluated on 8 benchmarks, including Aider Polyglot, Chatbot Arena, Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding, MMLU PRO, Google-Proof Q&A.
Cheapest of 4 routes · Chutes AI