Model profile
xAI

Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)

Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) is a budget-priced text-first model from xAI with fast runtime profile, partial context coverage, and the clearest fit around agent workflows / reasoning.

Best for: Agent workflows / ReasoningFast latencyN/A contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
32.1

Benchmark blend

Coding
25.2

Dev workflow signal

Context
N/A

N/A

Input Price
$0.30

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
56

Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) currently reads as a budget text-first option with partially published context and a fast runtime profile.

Overall profile
Selective fit
Best for
Agent workflows / Reasoning
Latency tier
Fast
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterArtificial Analysis

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
32.1
32

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Limited
Speed
197 tok/s
100

TTFT 0.36s

Above average
Context
N/A
N/A

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Unavailable
Price
$0.30
86

$0.50 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Selective fitCoding score 25Math score 85

The Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) AI model by xAI.

Identity

xAI text-first profile

Positioning

Agent workflows / Reasoning with partially published context and fast runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Latency and throughput look responsive enough for interactive loops.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

  • Context limits are only partially published, so long-session planning needs extra validation.

Best fit
  • Focused chat, retrieval-augmented flows, and narrower production tasks.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
32.1
MMLU Pro
82.8%
GPQA
79.1%
HLE
11.1%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

Coding Index
25.2
LiveCodeBench
0.696
SciCode
40.6%
Math

Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.

Math Index
84.7
AIME
93.3%
AIME 2025
84.7%
Math 500
99.2%
Agent / tool use

Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.

IFBench
45.9%
TAU2
90.4%
TerminalBench Hard
17.4%
LCR
50.3%

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
N/A
Vision
Text-first
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.30
Output
per 1M output tokens
$0.50
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
$0.35

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.