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Using Grok 4.3 on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Grok 4 · xAI

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call xai/grok-4.3 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.25/1M input, $2.50/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
xai/grok-4.3

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

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)

About Vercel AI Gateway

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. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.

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. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.25
Output tokens$2.50
Query$5.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool 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.

Model Specs

Released2026-05-06
Parameters~0.5T
Context1M
Knowledge cutoff2024-11

Provider

Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel