vs
0:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Grok Build 0.1 leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Grok Build 0.1 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 131K); Grok Build 0.1 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K); Grok 3 Mini is ~3.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Grok Build 0.1.
- Grok Build 0.1 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 131K)
- Grok Build 0.1 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Grok 3 Mini is ~3.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Grok Build 0.1
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Grok 3 Mini
- $0.42
- Grok Build 0.1
- $1.50
Grok 3 Mini is about 3.5x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
xAI
xAI
Family
Grok
Grok
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Feb 19, 2025
Jul 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
xAI
xAI
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
131K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$1
Output $/1M
$0.50
$2
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.35
$1.25
Speed
tok/s
130
120
TTFT (s)
0.22
0.28
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Grok 3 Mini | Grok Build 0.1 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | xAI | xAI | — |
| Family | Grok | Grok | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Feb 19, 2025 | Jul 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | xAI | xAI | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 131K | 256K | B +125K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $1 | A +$0.70 |
| Output $/1M | $0.50 | $2 | A +$1.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.35 | $1.25 | A +$0.90 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 130 | 120 | A +10 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.22 | 0.28 | A +0.06 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Grok 3 Mini
- Context
- 131K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $0.50
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.22s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Reasoning-capable mini tier from the Grok 3 generation — strong STEM relative to cost.
Grok Build 0.1
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1 / $2
- Speed
- 120 tok/s · 0.28s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
xAI coding/build-oriented SKU at $1/$2 with 256k context (long-context rates above 200k prompts).
Benchmark charts
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