xAI · Balanced
Grok 4.3
Grok 4.3 is SpaceXAI's reasoning model for text and image inputs, built for agentic workflows, instruction following, factual accuracy, long-document analysis, and deep research. Reasoning is always active and requests above 200k total tokens are charged at the higher long-context rate. Content policy rejections can still be charged: SpaceXAI may pass through a $0.05 moderation-failure fee, or a $0.055 usage-guidelines violation fee, depending on which rejection upstream returns.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.25
- Output
- $2.50
- Cache read
- $0.20
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- —
- Average output (7 days)
- 466 tokens
- Longer than 46% of 473 models
Side by side
Grok 4.3 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Grok 4.3xAIThis model | Grok 4.6xAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | xAI |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Frontier |
| Added | Apr 30, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 500K |
| Average output | 466 tokens | 1.8K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.25Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $2.50Best | $6.00 |
| Cache read | $0.20Best | $0.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 357.8 tok/sBest | 152.1 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 17.5 s | 3.4 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 14.0 | 44.3Best |
| Coding Index | 35.2 | 76.8Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Grok 4.3
- Grok 4.6
Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.314.0
- Grok 4.644.3
Grok 4.3: Better than 35% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Grok 4.3: 35.2
- Grok 4.6: 76.8Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Grok 4.3: 0.9%
- Grok 4.6: 66.7%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Grok 4.3: 0.2%
- Grok 4.6: 32.7%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Grok 4.3: 724 Elo
- Grok 4.6: 1,531 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Grok 4.3: 941 Elo
- Grok 4.6: 1,618 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Grok 4.3: 2.8%
- Grok 4.6: 17.0%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Grok 4.3: 32.3%
- Grok 4.6: 80.3%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Grok 4.3: 5.6%
- Grok 4.6: 15.6%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Grok 4.3: 6.8%
- Grok 4.6: 42.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Grok 4.3: 65.8%
- Grok 4.6: 94.9%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Grok 4.3: 47.6%
- Grok 4.6: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Grok 4.3: 0.0%
- Grok 4.6: 21.2%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Grok 4.3: 39.4%
- Grok 4.6: 56.5%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Grok 4.3: 18.9%
- Grok 4.6: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Grok 4.3: 65.8%
- Grok 4.6: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Grok 4.3: 32.3%
- Grok 4.6: 80.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Grok 4.3
- Grok 4.6
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.3 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #14 · 17.4% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Grok 4.3
- Grok 4.6
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.3 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1270.6 |
| WebDev · Image To Webdev | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1603.5 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1452.3 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1461.1 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Grok 4.3
- Grok 4.6
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.3 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #9 · 48.0% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #7 · 61.3% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 357.8 tok/s
- Faster than 95% of 260 models
- Time to first token
- 17.5 s
- Quicker than 4% of 260 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 19.9%
- About $1.04 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "x-ai/grok-4.3",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="x-ai/grok-4.3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)xAI
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