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Using Grok 3 Mini on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Grok 3 · xAI

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OpenRouter exposes Grok 3 Mini through model ID x-ai/grok-3-mini. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call x-ai/grok-3-mini — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.30/1M input, $0.50/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (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

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Provider

OpenRouter
OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA