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Grok 3

xai·xai/grok-3·GA·Closed·grok series
Grok model for agentic tool use, reasoning, coding, and live assistance

Grok 3 by xai is offered by 2 providers on this page. Its reference price is $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.

Artificial Analysis rates it 12.1 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $6.00 per 1M, that is roughly 2 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.

The context window is 131,072 tokens, with an output limit of 131,072 tokens. It supports tool use. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-06.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Reference price·Helicone
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · Cache read $0.75
Lowest paid·PoeGateway
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · 1× spread
Context
131,072
Output limit
131,072
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06
Released / updated
2025-04-11 / 2025-04-11
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use? Structured outputTemperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3

Intelligence12.1
Value2
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 12.1 ÷ min blended $6.000 = 2

Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.

Available at 2 providers2 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
PoeGateway$3.00$15.00$0.75—131,0728,192
HeliconeGateway$3.00$15.00$0.75—131,072131,072

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

1Poe$1,080.00
2Helicone$1,080.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$15.00$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $3.002026-08-06 · Input list $3.002026-08-07 · Input list $3.002026-08-08 · Input list $3.002026-08-09 · Input list $3.002026-08-10 · Input list $3.002026-08-11 · Input list $3.002026-08-12 · Input list $3.002026-08-13 · Input list $3.002026-08-05 · Output list $15.002026-08-06 · Output list $15.002026-08-07 · Output list $15.002026-08-08 · Output list $15.002026-08-09 · Output list $15.002026-08-10 · Output list $15.002026-08-11 · Output list $15.002026-08-12 · Output list $15.002026-08-13 · Output list $15.002026-08-05 · Min blended $6.002026-08-06 · Min blended $6.002026-08-07 · Min blended $6.002026-08-08 · Min blended $6.002026-08-09 · Min blended $6.002026-08-10 · Min blended $6.002026-08-11 · Min blended $6.002026-08-12 · Min blended $6.002026-08-13 · Min blended $6.00

Artificial Analysis evaluations11 items

GPQA Diamond69.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%
MMLU-Pro79.9%
LiveCodeBench42.5%
Terminal-Bench Hard11.4%
AIME 202558.0%
AIME33.0%
MATH-50087.0%
τ²-Bench Telecom48.8%
AA-LCR58.0%
IFBench46.9%

Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.

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Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Helicone official docs ↗