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Grok 4.20 Pricing Calculator

xAI's March 2026 reasoning model. One typical prompt costs $0.0019 (0.19¢) on Grok 4.20. Paste your own prompt below to compare it with other models.

Grok 4.20 is still available, but xAI has released newer models. xAI names Grok 4.3 as the replacement.

See Grok 4.3 pricing.

Input Price
$1.25
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$2.50
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Context Window
1M
xAI · March 9, 2026

Long-context pricing: prompts of 200,000+ tokens are billed at $2.50 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens for the whole request. The calculator applies this automatically.

Source: xAI official pricing · verified October 2026.

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Showing a typical prompt (500 input + 500 output tokens) across 27 models. Paste your own prompt above for an exact count.

ModelPer PromptPrompts / $1Monthly
xAI$0.00190.19¢533$5.63
OpenAI$0.0003000.03¢3,333$0.9000
Mistral$0.0003750.037¢2,666$1.13
OpenAI (via Together)$0.0003750.037¢2,666$1.13
OpenAI$0.0007000.07¢1,428$2.10
DeepSeek$0.0007500.075¢1,333$2.25
Meta (via Together)$0.0009250.092¢1,081$2.77
Mistral$0.00100.1¢1,000$3.00
Google$0.00140.14¢714$4.20
xAI$0.00190.19¢533$5.63
Google$0.00220.22¢444$6.75
DeepSeek$0.00260.26¢378$7.92
Meta$0.00270.27¢363$8.25
Anthropic$0.00300.3¢333$9.00
xAI$0.00400.4¢250$12.00
Alibaba (Qwen)$0.00400.4¢250$12.00
Mistral$0.00450.45¢222$13.50
OpenAI$0.00600.6¢166$18.00
OpenAI$0.00600.6¢166$18.00
Anthropic$0.00600.6¢166$18.00
OpenAI$0.00700.7¢142$21.00
Google$0.00700.7¢142$21.00
Moonshot AI$0.00900.9¢111$27.00
OpenAI$0.012083$36.00
Anthropic$0.012083$36.00
OpenAI$0.030033$90.00
Anthropic$0.030033$90.00

Prices from official provider pricing pages, verified October 2026.

Grok 4.20 Specs & Pricing
Input price$1.25 / 1M
Output price$2.50 / 1M
Cached input$0.20 / 1M
Typical prompt$0.0019
Batch discount20% off
Context window1M tokens
Max outputNot published
Knowledge cutoffNot published
Input typesText, Images
Reasoning modeAlways on
Open weightsNo
ReleasedMarch 9, 2026
StatusOlder, still available

Grok 4.20 — Frequently Asked Questions

Grok 4.20 is still available, but xAI has released newer models. xAI names Grok 4.3 as the replacement.

A typical prompt of 500 input tokens with a 500-token answer costs $0.0019 (0.19¢) on Grok 4.20. That means $1 buys about 533 prompts. Longer prompts and answers cost proportionally more.

With 500 input and 500 output tokens per request, Grok 4.20 costs $1.88 per 1,000 requests. Input tokens are $1.25 per million and output tokens $2.50 per million.

Grok 4.20 is cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash — about 1.2x less for the same request. Grok 4.20 costs $1.25/$2.50 per million tokens (input/output) vs Gemini 3.8 Flash's $0.75/$3.75.

Grok 4.20 accepts text and images and always reasons before answering. Its context window is 1M tokens.

Grok 4.20 supports 1M tokens (1,000,000) — the maximum combined length of your prompt and the model's answer in one request. Prompts of 200,000+ tokens are billed at $2.50/$5.00 per million for the whole request.

At 10,000 requests per day with 500 input + 500 output tokens each, Grok 4.20 costs about $562.50/month. Use the calculator above with your real prompt and volume.