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Grok 4 Retirement May 2026: What to Use Instead

xAI pricing now points new Grok pricing intent toward Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20. Here is what to use instead of old Grok 4 pages.
Qing Ke Ai
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#Grok 4#Grok 4.3#Grok 4.20#xAI pricing#model migration

Grok 4 Retirement May 2026

xAI's current pricing page lists Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20 models as the relevant current pricing routes. For LangCopilot, that means old Grok 4 pages should stop being the main crawl target.

The practical replacement is:

Old intentReplacementWhy
Grok 4 API pricingGrok 4.3 token calculatorCurrent 1M context route
Grok 4 long contextGrok 4.20 multi-agent calculator2M context route
Grok vs OpenAIGPT-5.5 vs Grok 4.3 pricingHigh-intent current comparison

Current xAI prices

ModelContextInput / 1MCached input / 1MOutput / 1M
Grok 4.31M$1.25$0.20$2.50
Grok 4.20 multi-agent2M$1.25$0.20$2.50
Grok 4.20 reasoning2M$1.25$0.20$2.50
Grok 4.20 non-reasoning2M$1.25$0.20$2.50

SEO handling

Old Grok routes should not be expanded into thousands of pairwise compare pages. The cleaner pattern is:

  • keep current Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20 calculators indexable;
  • remove retired Grok routes from the sitemap;
  • keep only high-intent comparisons such as GPT-5.5 vs Grok 4.3;
  • add a migration article like this one so users and crawlers understand what replaced the old route.

Calculator checklist

When migrating Grok traffic, verify cached-input cost separately from standard input cost. A long-running agent can look much cheaper if most repeated context hits xAI's cached input rate.

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Topic: AI Pricing
Difficulty: Intermediate
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Last Updated: May 15, 2026

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