Models

grok-2-vision-1212 vs grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning

Output tokens cost $9.00 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $0.50 per million on grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning. Input tokens cost $1.80 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $0.20 per million on grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning. Cached input tokens are billed at $1.80 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $0.05 per million on grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning. On the LMArena coding leaderboard grok-2-vision-1212 scores 1359 and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning scores 1492.

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Grok logo
grok-2-vision-1212
Grok · text, image → text

grok-2-vision-1212 is the latest vision model in the Grok family, delivering outstanding performance on vision-based tasks and achieving state-of-the-art results in visual mathematical reasoning and document-based question answering. It supports a wide range of visual inputs, including documents, charts, screenshots, and real-world images, making it well-suited for advanced visual understanding and reasoning use cases. The price of calling this model in AIhubMix is ​​10% lower than on the official website.

Input$1.80 /M
Output$9.00 /M
Grok logo
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.1 is a new conversational model with significant improvements in real-world usability, delivering exceptional performance in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions. It is more perceptive to nuanced user intent, more engaging to converse with, and more coherent in personality, while fully preserving its core intelligence and reliability. Built on large-scale reinforcement learning infrastructure, the model is optimized for style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment, and leverages frontier agentic reasoning models as reward evaluators to autonomously assess and iterate on responses at scale, significantly enhancing overall interaction quality.

Input$0.20 /M
Output$0.50 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

grok-2-vision-1212
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
Input /M
$1.80
$0.20
Output /M
$9.00
$0.50
Cache read /M
$1.80
$0.05
Context length
0
2,000,000
Max output
0
2,000,000
Time to First Token
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1.3 s
Throughput
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52.8 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
grok-2-vision-1212grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
1260134014201500
Overall
13351459
Coding
13591492
Math
12941428
Hard prompts
13261474
Instruction following
13121431
Multi-turn
13241463
Creative writing
13171432
Longer query
13351450
Chinese
13411501
English
13461469

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
$19.50 /mo
grok-2-vision-1212
$243 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: grok-2-vision-1212, grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning?

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning: $0.50/M output tokens; grok-2-vision-1212: $9.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning: 1492; grok-2-vision-1212: 1359 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

grok-2-vision-1212 accepts text and image input; grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call grok-2-vision-1212 and grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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