Modelo de razonamiento ligero de xAI que ofrece lógica de pensamiento rápida, matemáticas y velocidad agéntica a un precio accesible.
Technical Specifications
- Provider
- xAI
- Category
- reasoning
- Release Date
- 2025-02
- Batch API Discount
- 50% off async batch
- Consumer Subscription
- API Pay-as-you-go
- Reasoning Effort Control
- Configurable (Low / Med / High)
- Structured Outputs
- Yes
- Output Modalities
- text
- Official Documentation
- Visit Official Docs ↗
Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance
Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs
- Official API Model ID (SDK String)
- grok-3-mini-latest
- Supported SDK & API Protocol
- xAI REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)
- Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
- Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2027+)
- Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
- 5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM
- Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
- Flat rate ($0.3/1M in) across full 131K window
- Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
- Cached input at $0.075/1M tokens
- Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
- API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
- MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
- Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
- Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
- Real-time Web & X (Twitter) Search Grounding + Code Execution
- Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
- API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation
- Multimodal Tokenization Billing
- Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
- Weights Precision & Quantization
- Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
- Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
- Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
- Supported Inference Engines
- Managed xAI Cloud API
- System Card & Safety Framework
- xAI Production Safety & Alignment Verified
- Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
- SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Grok 3 Mini Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration
For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.
Break-even point: ~342 requests/day equals $20/month.
Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models
Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter
Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.
Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator
Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Grok 3 Mini:
Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar
- SWE-bench Verified
- 56.4%
- GPQA Diamond
- 68.4%
- MMLU-Pro
- 77.5%
- HumanEval
- 94.2%
- Humanity's Last Exam
- 10.5%
- Terminal-Bench
- 33.8%
- SciCode
- 38.5%
- LiveCodeBench
- 62.1%
- AIME
- 74.2%
- Long-Context Reasoning
- 69.4%
- Chatbot Arena Elo
- 1324pts
Strengths
- Iguala o supera a OpenAI o3-mini en programación competitiva
- Presupuesto de pensamiento ajustable para equilibrar velocidad y profundidad
- Alta velocidad de inferencia (90 tok/s) mientras genera cadenas de pensamiento
- Costo muy reducido frente al buque insignia Grok 3
Limitations & Trade-offs
- Sin soporte nativo de imágenes ni video
- Requiere clave de API empresarial de xAI
Editorial Assessment
La alternativa de alta velocidad a OpenAI o3-mini y DeepSeek R1.
Best for: Revisión automatizada de código, agentes de depuración en vivo y análisis matemático
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Frequently Asked Questions about Grok 3 Mini
How much does the Grok 3 Mini API cost per 1M tokens?+
Grok 3 Mini by xAI is priced at $0.3 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.075 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.
Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Grok 3 Mini pay-as-you-go API?+
A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.
How many words and pages fit in Grok 3 Mini's context window?+
Grok 3 Mini features a 131K tokens context window, which equals approximately 98,304 English words or ~262 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 16,384 tokens.
Can I run Grok 3 Mini locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+
No, Grok 3 Mini is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by xAI. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via xAI's official API or cloud platform.
Does xAI train on data sent to the Grok 3 Mini API, and is commercial use allowed?+
API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (xAI Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: xAI Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints.
How does Grok 3 Mini perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+
Grok 3 Mini achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 47/100, scoring 56.4% on SWE-bench Verified, 68.4% on GPQA Diamond, 77.5% on MMLU-Pro, and 1324 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.
What is Grok 3 Mini best used for?+
Grok 3 Mini is best suited for: Revisión automatizada de código, agentes de depuración en vivo y análisis matemático. Assessment: La alternativa de alta velocidad a OpenAI o3-mini y DeepSeek R1.
xAI Family Lineage, Routing Tiers & Upgrade Path
Step down to a lighter sibling for high-volume routing or step up to xAI's flagship reasoning tier:
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.6
Grok-4
Grok 4.5
Grok Imagine Video 1.5
Grok 4.3
AI Glossary & Architecture Concepts
View full glossary →Key machine learning concepts and benchmarks relevant to Grok 3 Mini:
La unidad básica de texto que procesa un modelo de lenguaje, que normalmente equivale a 3 o 4 caracteres o aproximadamente 0,75 palabras. Por ejemplo, una frase típica se divide en varios tokens.
Un conjunto estandarizado de pruebas para evaluar y comparar objetivamente las capacidades de distintos modelos de IA en tareas como programación (SWE-bench) o matemáticas avanzadas (AIME).
La cantidad máxima de tokens que un modelo puede considerar a la vez, incluyendo tanto la entrada que lee como la salida que genera. Una ventana de 1.000.000 de tokens puede procesar unas 750.000 palabras en una sola petición.
Un modelo de IA entrenado para invertir cómputo adicional en pensar y validar hipótesis lógicas antes de responder, diseñado para problemas complejos de ingeniería y matemáticas.
Una técnica de razonamiento paso a paso donde el modelo genera pensamientos intermedios antes de formular la respuesta final, mejorando radicalmente la resolución de problemas matemáticos y lógicos.
La capacidad de un modelo de detectar la necesidad de una función externa y emitir argumentos JSON estructurados para ejecutar API, búsquedas web o consultas a bases de datos.
Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.
Fuentes: xAI Grok 3 Launch Documentation↗