Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3
Billionaire Elon Musk may have just moved by OpenAI. But that stops his AI company, Xai, not from Make his flagship Grok 3 model available via an API.
It is a few months ago that Xai Grok 3 revealed, the company’s answer to models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4O and Google’s Gemini. Grok 3 can analyze images and respond to questions, and a number of positions on Musk’s Social Network, X, which did not take over in March in March in March.
Xai offers two flavors of grok 3 in its API: Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with “reasoning” options.
GROK 3 is priced at $ 3 per million tokens (~ 750,000 words) entered into the model and $ 15 per million tokens generated by the model. As far as grok 3 mini is concerned, it is $ 0.30 per million input tokens and $ .50 per million output tokens. Fast versions of grok 3 and grok 3 mini are available with a premium: $ 5/m input sticks, $ 25/m output tokens for groks 3 and $ .60/m input sticks, $ 4/m output tokens for grok 3 mini.
Grok 3 is not exactly cheap compared to the competition. It corresponds to the prices of the Claude 3.7 -Sonnet of Anthropic, which also offers reasoning options, and it is more expensive than the recently released Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google, which generally achieves higher scores than Grok 3 about popular AI benchmarks. (It is not without reason that Xai is accused of misleading in his grok 3 -benchmark reporting.)
When Several users on X have pointed out to itGrok 3 Via Xai’s API also has a smaller context window than the model is said to support. (“Context window” refers to how many tokens the model can process in one go.) The API maximizes a maximum of 131,072 tokens, or approximately 97,500 words – short of the 1 million tokens Xai claimed that Grok 3 was supported at the end of February.
When Musk Grok announced about two years ago, he threw the AI model as edgy, unfiltered and anti-“wake up”-in general willing to answer controversial questions that other AI systems will not do. He has realized part of that promise. Felled to be vulgar, for example, Grok and Grok 2 would like to oblige, which spits a colorful language that you would probably not hear from chatgpt.
But Grok -Models prior to Grok 3 roofed on political topics and would not cross Certain limits. In reality, One study Discovered that Grok leaned to political links on topics such as transgender rights, diversity programs and inequality.
Musk has blamed the behavior of the training data of Grok – Public web pages – and promised To “move closer to politically neutral.” Apart from controversial errors such as short censoring of unflattering entries from President Donald Trump and Musk, it is not yet clear whether Xai has achieved that goal at model level and what the long-term consequences could be.
