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Grok 4.3

by xAI

Current flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$1.25

per 1M tokens

Output

$2.50

per 1M tokens

Blended

$1.56

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.200

16% of input — prompt caching

Source: official xAI pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

We read xAI's own pricing page on and found Grok 4.3 listed with a price on the same card — that read is where the number above comes from. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 5ddd882013.

Overview

xAI's reasoning-first flagship with a 1M-token context and native video input (an xAI first), priced aggressively at roughly 5–10x cheaper than competing frontier models. $1.25/$2.50 per 1M tokens (cached input $0.20).

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score72.4%
Perf per $/Mtok46.3
GPQA Diamond
80%
SWE-Bench Verified
65%
Humanity's Last Exam
38%
ARC-AGI 2
42%
AIME 2025
85%
MMMLU
86%
BFCL
78%
HumanEval
90%
MATH 500
88%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 25.4 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 18 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1442.7 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #33 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #43 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 12 independent measurements
  • Ranks #65 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at BFCL — 78%, #3 of 24

130 tokens/sec output

Source: Artificial Analysis, xAI model card, Artificial Analysis, LMSYS Chatbot Arena (UC Berkeley) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
xAI
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
flagshipmultimodal

Availability verified: listed on xAI's own page