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xAI grok-3-mini

Grok 3 Mini (xAI)

Retired

Yes — Grok 3 Mini is retired and no longer served by xAI, which has not published the exact shutdown date. The recommended replacement is Grok 4.3.

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.

The facts

Provider xAI
Model id grok-3-mini
Released —
Deprecated date not published
Shutdown not published
Status Retired
Last verified August 3, 2026

What to use instead

xAI Grok 4.3 grok-4.3 Active

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.

What parameters grok-4.3 accepts on modelparams.dev

Change the id

In most cases the migration is one string. Check the parameter differences before you ship — newer models drop older sampling knobs more often than they add them. 

- "model": "grok-3-mini"
+ "model": "grok-4.3"

Frequently asked questions

What replaces xAI Grok 3 Mini?
xAI recommends Grok 4.3 (`grok-4.3`) as the replacement for xAI Grok 3 Mini. 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.
Is xAI Grok 3 Mini still available?
No. xAI Grok 3 Mini is retired and no longer served. Calls to it return an error.
How do I migrate from xAI Grok 3 Mini to grok-4.3?
Swap the model id in your API call: replace "grok-3-mini" with "grok-4.3". 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.

Sources

Found something wrong? The data is one YAML file — edit it on GitHub.

This page, for machines

JSON Markdown Badge JSON

Drop the badge in a README so it turns red the day this model is retired:

[![grok-3-mini](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/xai/grok-3-mini.json)](https://modeldeprecations.dev/xai/grok-3-mini)

Other xAI models

All xAI deprecations →

How to use this site

The full guide, in Markdown. Copy it and hand it to a coding agent verbatim.

# How to use modeldeprecations.dev

[modeldeprecations.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev) answers one question per model: is it deprecated,
when does it shut down, and what replaces it. Every date on the site is cited to the
provider's own documentation, with the date we last checked it.

Three lifecycle states are used, matching the providers' own vocabulary:

- **active** — still supported, no deprecation announced.
- **deprecated** — the provider has announced it is going away. It still answers requests.
- **retired** — API access is gone. Requests fail.

A model can be active *and* carry a shutdown date: Anthropic publishes a
"not sooner than" date and Google publishes an earliest shutdown date for models
that are current and fully supported. Those are reported as scheduled shutdowns,
not deprecations, because that is what the provider actually committed to.

## Check one model

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

Or fetch the page as Markdown, which includes the answer, the dates and the sources:

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/openai/gpt-4-32k.md
```

## Full catalog

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json
```

Ids are `provider/model`. Dated snapshots (`gpt-4-32k-0613`) are listed as aliases of
their canonical entry rather than as separate records.

Each entry carries `computed_status`, the lifecycle state recomputed against the build
date — so a model whose shutdown has passed reads `retired` without anyone editing data.

## Badges

A shields.io endpoint per model, for READMEs that should go red when a model dies:

```
https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

## Calendar and changelog

- Subscribe to every shutdown date: https://modeldeprecations.dev/calendar.ics
- Changelog RSS: https://modeldeprecations.dev/changelog.xml

## JSON Schema

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/schema.json
```

## Contribute

Data lives in YAML under `models/{provider}/{model}.yaml` in the
[GitHub repo](https://github.com/mnfst/modeldeprecations.dev). Every lifecycle date needs a source URL; CI rejects a
date without one. Open a PR.

## For agents

- Machine-readable overview: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms.txt
- This guide plus every model inline: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms-full.txt
- Any page also exists as Markdown: append `.md` to a model URL.
- In a browser, this site registers a **WebMCP** tool on `navigator.modelContext`:
  `check_model_deprecation`, `list_shutdowns`, `find_replacement`, and `get_usage_guide`.
- Parameters each model accepts are catalogued on the sibling site, https://modelparams.dev.