Models

Grok 2 Vision 1212 vs Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning)

Compare Grok 2 Vision 1212 from Grok and Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning) from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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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$1.8 /M
Output$9 /M
Grok logo
Grok 4.1 Fast (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$0.2 /M
Output$0.5 /M
Cache read$0.05 /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 (reasoning)
Input /M
$1.8
$0.2
Output /M
$9
$0.5
Cache read /M
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$0.05
Context length
0
2,000,000
Max output
0
2,000,000
Time to First Token
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2.8 s
Throughput
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75.9 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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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-reasoning
1260132013801440
Overall
13351430
Coding
13591461
Math
12941417
Hard prompts
13261441
Instruction following
13121402
Multi-turn
13241414
Creative writing
13171415
Longer query
13351422
Chinese
13411464
English
13461442

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 (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 (reasoning)?

Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning): $0.5/M output tokens; Grok 2 Vision 1212: $9/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning): 1461; 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 (reasoning) accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Grok 2 Vision 1212 and Grok 4.1 Fast (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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