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xAI drops Grok 4.3 with steep price cuts and an Imagine agent mode for creative projects
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Elon Musk's xAI has released Grok 4.3, a developer-focused AI model capable of autonomously performing tasks like web searches, code execution, and document creation.
While Grok 4.3 outperforms its predecessor in real-world knowledge work benchmarks, it still falls short of the leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
xAI also launched a beta version of "Grok Imagine Agent Mode," aimed at enabling cohesive creative production workflows.
xAI released Grok 4.3, a cheaper and more capable model aimed at practical tasks. The release also includes a new agent-based image generation tool.
xAI developer Eric Jiang says Grok 4.3 is built for developers and businesses, with a focus on speed, low cost, and tool calls. The model can handle web search, X search, Python code execution, and file search (RAG) on its own, and it can generate Excel files, PDFs, and PowerPoint decks.
Grok 4.3 runs at 100 tokens per second and has a one-million-token context window. Pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a knowledge cutoff of December 2025. Reasoning is now built in by default: Grok 4.3 "thinks" before answering every request, and reasoning tokens are billed at the same rate as regular output tokens. The model is available through OpenRouter, the xAI API, and the Hermes agent.
Much lower prices, mid-tier benchmark scores
According to independent benchmarking service Artificial Analysis, Grok 4.3 scored 53 on the Intelligence Index. That's slightly above Muse Spark and Claude Sonnet 4.6, four points above the previous Grok 4.20, and well behind the flagship models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Input costs drop about 40 percent and output costs about 60 percent compared to Grok 4.20. That puts Grok 4.3 on what Artificial Analysis calls the Pareto frontier, where performance and cost line up best. A full benchmark run costs $395, compared to $3,959 for GPT-5.5 and $4,811 for Claude Opus 4.7.