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Models · SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) · Out sinceReleased 30 Apr 2026

Grok 4.3

Available on OpenRouterOn OpenRouterAvailable nowGenerally availableClosed (can't be downloaded)Proprietary

Grok 4.3 is made by SpaceXAI (formerly xAI). We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's mid-priced to use.

Release date from OpenRouter listing (no x.ai news post found). Default effort = low. No vendor benchmarks found.

Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Mid-priced$1.25 / $2.50
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$1.56
MemoryContext
1M
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
3 (3 independent3 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
30 Apr 2026
Made byVendor
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
UnderstandsInputs
text, image

Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Using it through OpenRouter

On OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as x-ai/grok-4.3.

Route it as x-ai/grok-4.3 at $1.25 in / $2.50 out per 1M tokens, 1M context. Listed since 30 Apr 2026.

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GPQA Diamond91.4%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗1 Sep 2026—±1.406 stderr; $0.025/test
LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark (Lech Mazur)-4.2DefaultGrok 4.3Independent testIndependentLech Mazur (LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark) ↗28 Sep 2026—rank 55/56; Thurstone comparison score (centered at 0); est. win chance 4%; 95% bootstrap -4.428 to -4.058
Vals CorpFin v268.5%Defaultvals id grok/grok-4.3Independent testIndependentVals.ai ↗12 Aug 2026—vals id grok/grok-4.3; rank 8/134; ±0.915 stderr; $0.134161/test