xAI: Grok Latest vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| xAI: Grok Latest | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~x-ai | x-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 10.9 | 58.6 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $1.25/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $2.50/M |
| Context Window | 500,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 450,000 | 900,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 12.4 | 62.0 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 39.8 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 69.7 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok 4.3 costs $1.88 and Grok Latest costs $3.50, so Grok 4.3 is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.
Grok 4.3 reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok Latest.
On our blended benchmark score Grok 4.3 leads 58.6 to 10.9.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Grok 4.3 on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Grok Latest was released in July 2026 and Grok 4.3 in April 2026.
Pick Grok 4.3 if you need lower cost, long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | xAI: Grok Latest | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 158 |
| Code Review | 134 | 155 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 138 | 155 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 164 |
| Unit Test Generation | 125 | 144 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 139 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 130 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 121 | 136 |
| Frontend Component Design | 123 | 138 |
| Data Analysis | 125 | 153 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 147 |
| ETL Scripting | 129 | 145 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 134 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 124 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 141 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 141 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 139 | 152 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 120 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 134 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →