xAI: Grok 4.20, xAI — route, pricing & source

Grok 4.20 is a reasoning model from xAI with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering...

OpenRoutermediumLast checked: May 14, 2026
Input
$1.25 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$2.50 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available

Context and limits

Context window
2M
Max output
Unknown
Input modalities
text, image, file
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Closed
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
VisionToolsJSONReasoningLong context

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Benchmarks

Access and license

Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Closed · API onlyNo public weights: use through a vendor’s cloud API or product. “Proprietary” means the creator does not distribute the trained model weights for self-hosting.

Example costs

Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request

10,000 requests
$20.00
100,000 requests
$200.00
1,000,000 requests
$2,000.00

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$5.00
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct
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$5.20
Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris
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$5.50

Source

Source
OpenRouter Models API
Confidence
medium
Route
OpenRouter
Last checked
May 14, 2026
Source notes
  • Includes Hugging Face benchmark data only when the dataset is public, ungated, allowlisted, and matched by reviewed aliases.
Open source
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