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Specification
xai listing
Context
1M
Max output
30K
Released
2026-04-17
Knowledge cutoff
2024-11
Retires
—
Open weights
no
Input
text, image, pdf
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · xai list price
Input
$1.25
Output
$2.50
Cache read
$0.20
Cache write
$1.25
Batch and priority prices
US dollars per million tokens · per listing
| Price | Listing | $/M |
|---|---|---|
| Batch input | xai | $1.00 |
| Batch input | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | $0.625 |
| Batch output | xai | $2.00 |
| Batch output | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | $1.25 |
| Priority input | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | $2.1875 |
| Priority output | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | $4.375 |
Batch input is 20% below the interactive input price at the same listing.
Long-context price tiers
the rate above each context threshold
| Above | Price | $/M |
|---|---|---|
| 200K | Cache read | $0.40 |
| 200K | Input | $2.50 |
| 200K | Output | $5.00 |
Quality
1 benchmark · 1 source
Composite
2nd
percentile of 344 scored models
Rank
339 / 344
±0.56 sd
Evidence
1 × 1
too little evidence to place with confidence
Effort range
—
one configuration only
general2nd1/1 bench
Every score
one row per source and configuration — nothing averaged away
| Benchmark | Score | Configuration | Source | Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench | 63.3 | default · 23 runs | LiveBench | 2026-06-25 |
The leading figure for a benchmark is the median across its configurations, so one heroic high-effort run cannot set the number.
Available from 38 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xaivendor | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K 1M | — |
| 302ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | — | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| abacus | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 33K | — |
| aihubmix | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| amazon-bedrock | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 131K | — |
| auriko | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| azure_ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 200K | 8K | — |
| bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | $1.25 $1.50 | $2.50 $3.00 | $0.20 $0.24 | — | 1M | 16K | — |
| cloudflare-ai-gateway | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| crossmodel · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 1M | 1M | — |
| daoxe | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| edenai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| fastrouter · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| frogbot | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 128K | — |
| google-vertex | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 200K | 30K | — |
| impossibl | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| kilo · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 900K | — |
| llmgateway | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| llmgateway-providers | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 200K 1M | 8K 1M | — |
| llmgateway-providers · aws-bedrock | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 131K | — |
| llmgateway-providers · azure-ai-foundry | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 20K | 8K | — |
| merge-gateway | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 1M | — |
| nano-gpt · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 900K | — |
| oci | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| ofox · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| openrouter · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 900K | — |
| opper | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| orcarouter · grok | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| perplexity | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | — | — | — |
| requesty | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 1M | 30K | — |
| standardcompute · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| tempr | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 30K | — |
| vercel · spacexai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 1M | — |
| vertex_ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 200K | 200K | — |
| zenmux · x-ai | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | — | 1M | 1M | — |
| venice | $1.42 | $2.83 | $0.23 | — | 1M | 32K | — |
| kyma · kyma | $1.92 | $3.838 | $0.27 | — | 1M | 33K | — |
| anyapi | — | — | — | — | 1M | 30K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Cache read | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-04 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Cache read | $0.20 |
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Input | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-04 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Input | $1.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Output | $2.50 |
| 2026-09-04 | bedrock_mantle · bedrock-mantle | Output | $2.50 |
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