Capabilities
7-day heat trend
+8.4%Pricing breakdown
Typical 3:1 output-to-input mix, per 1M tokens
Estimated monthly cost by workload
Market position
- Cheaper than 22% of tracked models
- Faster than 39% of tracked models
- Efficiency rank: #520 of 1105
Best suited for
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
About grok-3-mini
A lightweight model that thinks before responding. Fast, smart, and great for logic-based tasks that do not require deep domain knowledge. The raw thinking traces are accessible.
grok-3-mini is a Text model from xAI (US). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K-token context window, ~142 tokens/sec throughput and 99.4% availability. Its composite efficiency score is 89/100 at an estimated $0.001 per successful task.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does grok-3-mini cost per 1M tokens?+
grok-3-mini is tracked at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $0.45 per 1M tokens. Figures are illustrative demo data.
What is grok-3-mini best for?+
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
How fast is grok-3-mini?+
grok-3-mini delivers about 142 tokens/sec with 99.4% tracked availability, suitable for latency-sensitive, real-time applications.
Is grok-3-mini cheaper than other AI models?+
Within the HotON.ai tracked set, grok-3-mini is cheaper than 22% of models on input price and ranks #520 of 1105 by overall efficiency.
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Pricing is real (via the TestKey catalog, updated daily). Quality (Arena Elo) is real where the model is ranked on LMArena. Speed, availability and efficiency are modeled estimates.