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Why use Grok 4.3 on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Grok 4.3 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.25/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Grok 4.3 across 5 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$1.25
Output / 1M
$2.50
Cache
read $0.20
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
xai/grok-4.3Request example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "xai/grok-4.3", not the LLMReference slug "grok-4.3".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Grok 4.3 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| xAI Console | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| OpenRouter | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| Microsoft Foundry | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.25 | $2.50 |
| AWS Bedrock | $1.25 | $2.50 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.25 |
| Output tokens | $2.50 |
| Query | $5.00 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt Caching
About Grok 4.3
xAI's Grok 4.3 is the current flagship API chat model for agentic tool calling and instruction following. xAI lists text and image input, text output, configurable reasoning, a 1,000,000 token context window, cached-input pricing, function calling, and structured outputs.
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Model Specs
Released2026-05-06
Parameters~0.5T
Context1m
Knowledge cutoff2024-11