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Grok 4.3 (batch)

by xAI · x-ai/grok-4.3:batch · #254 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly

Grok 4.3 is a reasoning model from SpaceXAI. 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

$1.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$1.25

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.16

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Grok 4.3 (batch) with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$1.25$0.104
50%$0.935$0.062−40%
90%$0.683$0.0284−73%

*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

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.0011$1.10
Document summary8,0001,000$0.01$10.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.034$34.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.16$160.00

Performance

Intelligence Index

25.4

AA composite quality

Coding Index

42.2

Math Index

Agentic Index

17.2

Output speed

0 tok/s

median

Time to first token

0s

median

Time to first answer

0s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
GPQA Diamond90.1%
Humanity's Last Exam37.2%
SciCode48.3%
IFBench81.3%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)73.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard37.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.139.7%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)97.7%
τ³-Bench Banking12.4%

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,207
Web apps1,144
Full-stack1,017
Mobile apps1,091
Android native972
UI components1,206
Data viz1,196
SVG1,109
3D1,154
Game dev1,198
Agentic game dev1,007
Godot game dev1,035
HTML slides1,011
PPTX slides1,071
Python→PPTX slides1,072
Agentic slides1,072
Agentic HTML slides1,066
Agentic slides (HTML)1,066
Agentic slides (Python PPTX)1,068
Code categories1,202
ASCII art1,158

Specs

Context window

1M

tokens

Max output

900K

tokens

Input modalities

text, image, file

Tokenizer

Grok