Grok-2 — pricing & specs
Grok-2 is a balanced model from xAI, at capability tier 5 of 8. Live $/M-token pricing and specs from the Mintok catalog.
$/M-token pricing
What Grok-2 costs in practice
At $10/M output tokens, Grok-2 is the 7th-cheapest of 9 priced tier-5 models in the Mintok catalog — about 300% above the tier median of $2.50/M.
| Scenario | Est. cost |
|---|---|
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $12.00 |
| A 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) | $0.036 |
| 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) | $9.00 |
| 1M-token RAG chat session (900K cached in / 100K out) | $2.80 |
Estimated from list price at the token mixes shown; your real cost depends on prompt/response length and cache hit-rate. Model your own volume →
Specifications
- Vendor
- xAI
- Family
- Grok-2
- Capability tier
- 5 / 8
- Size class
- BALANCED
- Category
- GENERAL
- Parameters
- 314B total · 80B active (MoE)
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Licensing
- Proprietary
Carbon footprint (modeled)
Modeled decode on a reference NVIDIA Rubin Ultra VR300 at 50% MBU, batch 32, global-avg grid. Compare all models & grids →
Alternatives at tier 5
Same capability tier, sorted by output price — the cheaper-capable options.
- DeepSeek V3DeepSeek$0.80/M out
- Mistral Large 2Mistral$1.50/M out
- DeepSeek R1DeepSeek$2.50/M out
- Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle$2.50/M out
- Grok 4.3xAI$2.50/M out
- o3OpenAI$8/M out
FAQ
How much does Grok-2 cost per token?
Grok-2 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Is Grok-2 expensive?
At $10/M output tokens, Grok-2 is the 7th-cheapest of 9 priced tier-5 models in the Mintok catalog — about 300% above the tier median of $2.50/M.
What does a typical request with Grok-2 cost?
At list price, a 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) with Grok-2 costs about $0.036, and 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) about $9.00.
What is Grok-2's context window?
Grok-2 supports a 131,072-token context window.
What capability tier is Grok-2?
Grok-2 sits at capability tier 5 of 8 on the Mintok scale (BALANCED size class).
Is Grok-2 open-source or proprietary?
Grok-2 is a proprietary model from xAI, accessed via API.
Put Grok-2 to work
Benchmark it on your prompts, or size a deployment and compare $/M-token against alternatives.
Pricing and specs are maintained by Mintok's catalog watchers from public sources. Not investment advice. Methodology.