Social Media Brand Monitoring & Response Cost: Grok 4.1

Complete Analysis: 5,500 tokens for Grok 4.1

Complete analysis of pricing, performance, and use cases for xAI's Grok 4.1 model .

📊 Batch API
$0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01) Total Cost
5,500 Total Tokens
10.00 seconds Processing Time
514 Effective Tokens/Sec

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Grok 4.1
xAIMax Context: 1,000,000 tokens
$3 / $15 per 1M tokens (≤128,000 tokens)
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Provider-specific multipliers applied after all calculations
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Number of requests (max 1M). Summary view auto-enabled >10k.

Calculate Token Costs

$0.011250 Total Cost
$0.007500 Input Cost
$0.003750 Output Cost
$0.000000 Unit Cost
$0.000000 Search Cost
$0.000000 Request Fee
$0.000000 Tool Fee
$0.000000 Code Execution
5,500Total Tokens
$0.002045Cost per 1K
488,889Tokens per $
🔄 Threshold Pricing Active: Using Standard pricing (standard) based on token volume.
📊 Advanced Cost Breakdown

Processing Speed

10.88s Processing Time
550 Tokens/Second
200ms Time to First Token
514 Effective Speed

Model Comparison

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Model Information

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🔄 Advanced Options

⚡ Optimization
Flat fee per session (e.g., $0.03 for Code Interpreter)
Hourly storage fee for cached data
First 50 hours free, $0.05/hour after
🧠 Reasoning & Thinking
Apply 1.5x multiplier to output tokens (GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6)
Manual thinking tokens (billed at output rate)
🔧 Special Modes
Enable 4x Tunnel Multiplier (applied after markup)
Enable 6.0x Fast Mode multiplier
📚 Research & Citations
Enable $1.00/$4.00 rates + $10.00/1k search
Enable research tier pricing
Fee per source cited
🎤 Realtime Audio & Video
Session length for billing

Grok 4.1 xAI 1000000

$0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01)
Total Cost
📊 Batch API 🔧 Tools
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Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✓ Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✓ Available
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Tool Usage
✓ Available
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OCR Support
✗ Not Available
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Batch API
✓ Available
⚡
Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01) Input: $0.007500 (rounded ~ 0.01)
Output: $0.003750 (rounded ~ 0.00)
Optimized Cost $0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01) Input: $0.007500 (rounded ~ 0.01)
Output: $0.003750 (rounded ~ 0.00)
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

📊 Batch API
50.0% off
Asynchronous processing discount

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 5,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $0.007500 (rounded ~ 0.01)
  • Output Cost: $0.003750 (rounded ~ 0.00)
  • Total Cost: $0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.002045 (rounded ~ 0.00)
  • Tokens per dollar: 488,889 tokens
  • Context Window: 1000000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 550 tokens per second and 200ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 10.00 seconds
  • Latency: 200 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 550 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 514 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

Best Use Cases

Brand ManagementPRViral Marketing

✨ Market Recommendations AI Model Registry

← Back to Grok 4.1
📋 Active Input Parameters
Input Tokens: 5,000
Output Tokens: 500
Batch API: Enabled (50% discount)
Tools: Enabled
Rank AI Model & Provider Total Cost vs Grok 4.1
🏆 Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI
 $0.000163 Best Value ↓ 98.6% cheaper
🥈 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google
 $0.000350 ↓ 96.9% cheaper
🥉 o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.001750 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 84.4% cheaper
#4 Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI
 $0.001775 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 84.2% cheaper
#5 o4-mini
OpenAI
 $0.001925 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 82.9% cheaper
#6 Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI
 $0.003250 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 71.1% cheaper
#7 GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI
 $0.003938 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 65% cheaper
#8 Grok 5
xAI
 $0.005625 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 50% cheaper
#9 Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
 $0.008000 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 28.9% cheaper
#10 GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI
 $0.010000 ↓ 11.1% cheaper
#11 Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
 $0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01) Same price
#12 o3 Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.017500 (rounded ~ 0.02) ↑ 55.6% more
#13 Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
 $0.018750 (rounded ~ 0.02) ↑ 66.7% more
#14 o3 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04) ↑ 211.1% more
#15 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.047250 (rounded ~ 0.05) ↑ 320% more
#16 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.047250 (rounded ~ 0.05) ↑ 320% more
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Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI

$0.000163
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 98.6%
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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google

$0.000350
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 96.9%
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o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.001750 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 84.4%
#4

Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI

$0.001775 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 84.2%
#5

o4-mini
OpenAI

$0.001925 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 82.9%
#6

Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI

$0.003250 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 71.1%
#7

GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI

$0.003938 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 65%
#8

Grok 5
xAI

$0.005625 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 50%
#9

Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google

$0.008000 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 28.9%
#10

GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI

$0.010000
vs Grok 4.1: ↓ 11.1%
#11

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic

$0.011250 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Grok 4.1: Same
#12

o3 Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.017500 (rounded ~ 0.02)
vs Grok 4.1: ↑ 55.6%
#13

Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic

$0.018750 (rounded ~ 0.02)
vs Grok 4.1: ↑ 66.7%
#14

o3 Pro
OpenAI

$0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04)
vs Grok 4.1: ↑ 211.1%
#15

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$0.047250 (rounded ~ 0.05)
vs Grok 4.1: ↑ 320%
#16

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$0.047250 (rounded ~ 0.05)
vs Grok 4.1: ↑ 320%
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