Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)
Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) is an API model from xAI. It’s positioned for general text tasks—work that benefits from iteration, not just one-shot answers.
Intelligence
Medium
Speed
Good
148 tok/s output
Cost
Low
$0.30 in / $0.50 out
Context
1M
Up to 1,000,000 tokens
How are Intelligence, Speed & Cost bucketed?
Intelligence and Speed buckets are percentile ranks on
Artificial Analysis. Cost buckets are fixed dollar
thresholds keyed off output-token price ($/M out).
Intelligence
- Top 1%≤ 1%
- Top 5%≤ 5%
- Top 10%≤ 10%
- Good≤ 25%
- Medium≤ 50%
- Below avg> 50%
Speed
- Top 1%≥ 345 tok/s
- Top 5%≥ 237 tok/s
- Top 10%≥ 196 tok/s
- Good≥ 146 tok/s
- Medium≥ 90 tok/s
- Slow< 90 tok/s
Cost
- Freeopen weights · self-host
- Low< $1 / M out
- Moderate$1–5 / M out
- High≥ $5 / M out
Core Capabilities
Long Documents
Handles entire codebases, books, and multi-doc RAG.
Context Window
1M tokens
≈ entire codebase
4k Chat 聊天
32k Long docs 长文档
128k Books 整本书
400k Multi-doc 多文档
1M This model 本模型
10M
Availability
API
Available
Product / App
Not available
Open Source
Not released
Enterprise
Contact sales
Pricing Model
Pay per token
Input and output billed separately.
Pay-per-token Capability / Performance
Where this model sits relative to the middle 60% of models in the tree. All scores are 0–10 (higher is better).
Lower 20% Upper 80% This model
Consistency
No data reported · placeholder
5.0
Lower 20% 20th percentile — 20% of models score below this This model Where the current model lands Upper 80% 80th percentile — only 20% of models score above this
Percentile boundaries are computed across every model in the tree that reports the underlying benchmark for each capability.
What it feels like
- First xAI model trained on the Colossus supercluster — 10x compute of Grok-2
- AIME 2025 93.3% and GPQA 84.6% — credibly frontier-tier on math and graduate science
- Chatbot Arena Elo 1402 at release — not a benchmark stunt, real human-preference signal
Best use cases
- Research and scientific Q&A where chain-of-thought matters
- Real-time information retrieval inside the X platform with full timeline access
- Math and competition-style coding (LiveCodeBench 79.4%)
Tools to try
Not ideal for
- Coding-agent leaderboards — Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek V4 score higher on SWE-bench
- Workflows where benchmark transparency matters — release controversy is a real concern
Model Evolution
grok is xAI's image model family.