Grok 4.3
by xAI · x-ai/grok-4.3 · #213 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Grok 4.3 is a reasoning model from xAI. It accepts text and image inputs with text output, and is suited for agentic workflows, instruction-following tasks, and applications requiring high factual...
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Pricing
Input
$1.25
per 1M tokens
Output
$2.50
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$1.56
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.20
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Grok 4.3 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1.56 | $0.13 | — |
| 50% | $1.17 | $0.0775 | −40% |
| 90% | $0.854 | $0.0355 | −73% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.001375 | $1.38 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0125 | $12.50 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0425 | $42.50 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.2 | $200.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
37.6
AA composite quality
Coding Index
42.2
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
24.1
Output speed
123 tok/s
median
Time to first token
31.32s
median
Time to first answer
31.32s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 35.0% |
| SciCode | 47.3% |
| IFBench | 81.3% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 64.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 37.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 39.7% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 97.7% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 12.2% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,221 |
| Web apps | 1,179 |
| Full-stack | 1,070 |
| Mobile apps | 1,130 |
| Android native | 1,056 |
| UI components | 1,236 |
| Data viz | 1,222 |
| SVG | 1,128 |
| 3D | 1,182 |
| Game dev | 1,235 |
| Agentic game dev | 1,017 |
| Godot game dev | 1,061 |
| HTML slides | 1,045 |
| PPTX slides | 1,071 |
| Python→PPTX slides | 1,072 |
| Agentic slides | 1,072 |
| Agentic HTML slides | 1,066 |
| Agentic slides (HTML) | 1,066 |
| Agentic slides (Python PPTX) | 1,068 |
| Code categories | 1,221 |
| ASCII art | 1,184 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
—
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, file
Tokenizer
Grok