Grok API pricing: every model, every rate
xAI ships fewer models than its competitors but revises them often. Below is the currently billable set.
Full rate card
32 billable models. 0 carry a rate verified against the vendor's own published pricing; the rest are gateway rates only. USD per 1M tokens, verified 2026-09-16.
| Model | Input | Output | Out/In | Official (in / out) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
grok-2-vision-1212 | $2.5 | $12.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-2 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-2-1212 | $1.5 | $1.5 | 1.0× | not verified |
grok-3 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4-0709 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4-deepsearch | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4.2 | $1.5 | $7.5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-2-imageGen | $1 | — | not verified | |
grok-2-search | $1 | — | not verified | |
grok-3-deepersearch | $1 | $3 | 3.0× | not verified |
grok-3-deepsearch | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-3-reasoner | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-3-reasoning | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-3-search | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4.1 | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4.1-thinking | $1 | $5 | 5.0× | not verified |
grok-4.5 | $1 | $3 | 3.0× | not verified |
grok-4.6 | $1 | $3 | 3.0× | not verified |
grok-4-20-non-reasoning | $0.625 | $1.25 | 2.0× | not verified |
grok-4-20-reasoning | $0.625 | $1.25 | 2.0× | not verified |
grok-4.3 | $0.625 | $1.25 | 2.0× | not verified |
grok-build-0.1 | $0.5 | $1 | 2.0× | not verified |
grok-4.1-fast | $0.2 | $1.5 | 7.5× | not verified |
grok-4.2-fast | $0.2 | $1.5 | 7.5× | not verified |
grok-code-fast-1 | $0.2 | $1.5 | 7.5× | not verified |
grok-3-mini | $0.15 | $0.2505 | 1.7× | not verified |
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning | $0.1 | $0.25 | 2.5× | not verified |
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning | $0.1 | $0.25 | 2.5× | not verified |
grok-4-fast | $0.1 | $0.25 | 2.5× | not verified |
grok-4-fast-non-reasoning | $0.1 | $0.25 | 2.5× | not verified |
grok-4-fast-reasoning | $0.1 | $0.25 | 2.5× | not verified |
Output is billed at a multiple of input on most models. The Out/In column is that multiple — it matters more than the input price once output dominates your bill.
Across 32 billable models the rate spans $0.1 (grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning) to $2.5 (grok-2-vision-1212) per million input tokens — a 25× spread. Picking the wrong tier is usually the single most expensive mistake here.
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