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Why use Grok 3 Mini on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Grok 3 Mini with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.30/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Grok 3 Mini across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$0.50
Cache
Not sourced
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackInstall
Use the provider REST API or SDKAuth
Create a provider API keyCall
model: x-ai/grok-3-miniModel ID
x-ai/grok-3-miniRequest example
Curated snippets for this provider are not sourced yet. Use OpenRouter documentation with model ID
x-ai/grok-3-mini.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "x-ai/grok-3-mini", not the LLMReference slug "grok-3-mini".
Compare Grok 3 Mini Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.30 | $0.50 |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.25 | $1.27 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.30 |
| Output tokens | $0.50 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs
About Grok 3 Mini
Grok 3 Mini is xAI's Grok 3 model with multimodal text and image input. It offers a 131K-token context window.
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Model Specs
Released2025-02-17
Context131k
Knowledge cutoff2024-11