// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "x-ai/grok-3-mini"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "x-ai/grok-3-mini"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="x-ai/grok-3-mini",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "x-ai/grok-3-mini",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Grok 3 Mini is a lightweight, cost-efficient reasoning model that thinks before responding, ideal for logic-based tasks that don't require deep domain knowledge. It features configurable reasoning effort and exposes accessible thinking traces for transparency.
Context Window 131K
tokens
Max Output 131K
tokens
Input Cost $0.3
per million tokens
Output Cost $0.5
per million tokens
Input text
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Knowledge Cutoff Nov 2024
Release Date Feb 17, 2025
Output Speed 47
tokens / sec
Latency 0.68s
time to first token
Model Playground
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This playground uses the Puter.js AI API — no API keys or setup required.
Benchmarks
How Grok 3 Mini performs on standard evaluations.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science Q&A | 79.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam Cross-domain reasoning | 11.1% |
| LiveCodeBench Recent coding problems | 69.6% |
| SciCode Scientific programming | 40.6% |
| MATH-500 Competition math | 99.2% |
| AIME 2024 Advanced math exam | 93.3% |
| AIME 2025 Advanced math exam | 84.7% |
| IFBench Instruction following | 45.9% |
| LCR Long-context reasoning | 50.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard Agentic terminal tasks | 17.4% |
| τ²-Bench Tool use / agents | 90.4% |
Scores sourced from Artificial Analysis.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Grok 3 Mini by xAI through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Grok 3 Mini to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.3 |
| Output | $0.5 |
Grok 3 Mini was created by xAI and released on Feb 17, 2025.
Grok 3 Mini supports a context window of 131K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 262 pages of text.
Grok 3 Mini can generate up to 131K tokens in a single response.
Grok 3 Mini has a knowledge cutoff date of Nov 2024. This means the model was trained on data available up to that date.
Grok 3 Mini accepts the following input types: text. It produces: text.
Yes, Grok 3 Mini supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.
Grok 3 Mini scores 22.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming 65% of tracked models. On math, it scores 84.7 (outperforms 81% of models).
Yes — the Grok 3 Mini API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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