Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI·Nov 2025reasoningproprietary
Grok 4.1 Fast is xAI's speed-and-scale tier and arguably the best long-context bargain on the market: a 2 million token window at budget pricing. It is tuned for agentic tool calling and high-throughput workloads, and its economics make previously impractical patterns — like stuffing an entire corpus into context instead of building RAG — suddenly viable for some teams.
Benchmark results
No verified benchmark results tracked yet for Grok 4.1 Fast. This page is updated as official evaluations are published.
Where it shines
- 2M-token context at one tenth of typical frontier prices
- Strong tool-calling tuned for agent workloads
- Very fast time-to-first-token
Alternatives to Grok 4.1 Fast
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
OpenAI's flagship reasoning model with a 1M-token context window, built for hard coding, science and long-horizon agentic work.
Google's November 2025 frontier breakout — 91.9% GPQA Diamond and 37.5% HLE made it the reasoning leader of its generation.
Google's 2025 workhorse flagship — first mainstream thinking model with a 1M context, still widely deployed.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does the Grok 4.1 Fast API cost?
- Grok 4.1 Fast costs $0.2 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05 per million. A workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month costs about $2.75.
- What is the context window of Grok 4.1 Fast?
- Grok 4.1 Fast supports a context window of 2,000,000 tokens (2M).
- Is Grok 4.1 Fast open source?
- No — Grok 4.1 Fast is a proprietary model available through xAI's API and partner platforms.
- What are the best alternatives to Grok 4.1 Fast?
- The closest alternatives by overall capability are Qwen3-Max, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Pro. See the comparison pages for detailed head-to-head breakdowns.