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Grok
xAI’s Grok model family — real-time oriented assistants with strong coding and reasoning, available via xAI API and consumer surfaces.
Vision · Tool calling · Thinking · Coding
Last reviewed: 24 July 2026
Overview
xAI’s Grok model family — real-time oriented assistants with strong coding and reasoning, available via xAI API and consumer surfaces.
Capabilities
- Vision: Yes
- Audio: No
- Tool calling: Yes
- Thinking: Yes
- MCP: No
- Coding: Yes
- Structured output: Yes
Technical specifications
- Provider
- xAI
- License
- Proprietary (select open releases exist separately)
- Context window
- 131K
- Release
- 2024–2025
- Modalities
- Text, Image
- Vision
- Yes
- Audio
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Thinking
- Yes
- MCP
- No
- Open weights
- No
- API
- Yes
- Pricing (input)
- xAI API tiered
- Pricing (output)
- xAI API tiered
Supported modalities
Text · Image
Context window
131K (131,072 tokens)
Pricing
Input: xAI API tiered
Output: xAI API tiered
Availability
API: Yes
Chat UI: Yes
Open weights: No
Consumer Grok experiences may differ from API models.
Use cases
- Realtime-aware chat experiences
- Coding assistants
- Reasoning-heavy Q&A
- Tool-using agents via xAI API
Strengths
- Competitive frontier coding/reasoning
- Distinct product distribution (X / xAI)
- Rapid model iteration
Limitations
- Ecosystem smaller than OpenAI/Anthropic
- Primarily proprietary API access
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