LLM Reference

Grok 3 Mini

grok-3-mini

DeprecatedResearched 1d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-20. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalRAGLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Grok 3 Mini is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Grok 4.3 before starting new work.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-20.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 131K context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • New production launches

Cheapest output

$0.500

OpenRouter per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-20

Researched 1d ago

fresh

This API model is marked deprecated. Use Grok 4.3 as the replacement candidate before sending new production traffic.

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$0.300$0.500
Serverless
Microsoft Foundry$0.250$1.27
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Grok 3 Mini is xAI's Grok 3 model with multimodal text and image input. It offers a 131K-token context window.

Grok 3 Mini has a 128K-token context window.

Grok 3 Mini input tokens at $0.25/1M, output at $1.27/1M.

Capabilities

MultimodalStructured Outputs

Rankings

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Specifications

FamilyGrok 3
Released2025-02-17
Context131K
Knowledge cutoff2024-11

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