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  "$schema": "https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/schema.json",
  "provider": "xai",
  "model": "grok-3-mini",
  "name": "Grok 3 Mini",
  "aliases": [],
  "description": "The small reasoning model of the Grok 3 generation, and the first xAI id that exposed its thinking trace, which made it briefly popular for debugging agent behaviour. It went before grok-3 itself did. The id is off the model list and its docs page 404s, with no retirement date left in xAI's documentation.",
  "status": "retired",
  "replacements": [
    {
      "provider": "xai",
      "model": "grok-4.3",
      "recommended": false,
      "note": "grok-4.3 with a low reasoning effort is the closest equivalent, though the price floor is considerably higher than Grok 3 Mini's was.",
      "external": false
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/models",
      "title": "xAI models and pricing (no longer lists this model)",
      "accessed": "2026-08-03"
    }
  ],
  "last_verified": "2026-08-03",
  "computed_status": "retired",
  "asOf": "2026-08-03"
}