RETIRED131K CONTEXTARCHIVE PRICEGROK 2 REFRESH
Grok 2 (1212) API Pricing
Grok 2 (1212) is an archive row for xAI's December 2024 API refresh: $2/M input and $10/M output. The official xAI launch post announced the reduced price for `grok-2-1212` and `grok-2-vision-1212`.
Input - per 1M tokens
$2.00/M
Launch 1212 API price archive
Output - per 1M tokens
$10.00/M
No current endpoint archive
Cache N/A - billed as input
$2.00/M
No cache row listed N/A
Effective - agentic blend
$2.64/M
92/8 split - 82% cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Run the numbers.
Calculator pre-loaded with Grok 2 (1212) archive rates from xAI's launch pricing post. Use it for invoice replay and historical model comparisons.
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Real-world presets.
ARCHIVE
Invoice replay
$2.00/1M in
AGENT
Legacy agent task
$0.240/task
MIGRATION
Migration cost comparison
$0.500/pack
RAG
Archived RAG answer
$0.420/answer
§ 03 / TAPE
Price history.
Input · $2/M
Output · $10/M
Cached · $2/M
DEC 12 Launched at $2/M input and $10/M outputMAY 18 Archive pricing verified against xAI's official 1212 launch post
§ 04 / TOKENIZER
Paste text. See tokens. See cost.
Estimate · grok-tokenizer-estimate · ≈3.85 chars/token Auto-counts as you type
This is a chars-per-token approximation, not a real tokenizer. Actual tokens vary by language, code density, and tool-call overhead — counts are typically ±10–20% off for English prose, more for code or non-Latin scripts. For exact billing, use the vendor's official tokenizer.
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| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
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| Grok 2 (1212) Current | $2.00 | $10.00 | $2.64 archive 92/8 | 131K | Archive Grok 2 invoices |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 cache $0.20 | $2.50 | $0.56 current replacement | 1M | Current Grok default |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.03 | $2.50 | $0.27 budget Gemini | 1M | Low-cost multimodal work |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.07 | $4.50 | $0.54 OpenAI mini | 400K | Subagents and lightweight coding |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.43 cache $0.00 | $0.87 | $0.14 budget reasoning | 1M | Low-cost reasoning alternative |
Frequently asked.
Grok 2 (1212) pricing questions, with archive status separated from token math.
Q · 01 What was Grok 2 (1212)'s API price? +
This archive page uses
$2/M input, and $10/M output. Use it for historical billing and migration math, not fresh production routing.Q · 02 Is Grok 2 (1212) still available? +
No. This is an archive row for a retired Grok 2 API model. xAI's current docs direct general text workloads to
grok-4.3.Q · 03 What should replace it? +
Use
grok-4.3. xAI's current pricing page lists Grok 4.3 at $1.25/M input, $0.20/M cached input, and $2.50/M output.Q · 04 Does prompt caching apply? +
No separate cached-input price is listed in this archive row. The calculator treats cached input as regular input at
$2/M.Q · 05 Why keep an archive page? +
Retired model prices still matter for old invoices, migration plans, benchmarks, and generation-to-generation price history. The page is marked as archive so it does not imply current endpoint availability.
Q · 06 How accurate is the tokenizer estimate? +
The widget uses
4.875 characters per token as a planning estimate. Exact billing can vary with language, hidden reasoning, cached prompt boundaries, and tool usage.