What is Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning API?
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning — a general-purpose language model optimized for standard text generation and conversational tasks, without extended reasoning capabilities.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Text
- Context window: 2,000,000 tokens / Max output: 1,999,000 tokens
- Endpoint: /chat/completions
Performance Benchmarks
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Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning API Pricing
- Input: $2.6 / 1M tokens
- Output: $7.8 / 1M tokens
Where to Use Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning
Coding and code review
Generate, debug, and review code across languages, reading whole files or repos in a single prompt.
Agentic and multi-step workflows
Reliable tool-calling and instruction-following suit agent loops that plan, call tools, and iterate.
Long-document analysis
Summarize and extract from contracts, papers, and reports without aggressive chunking.
Code Sample
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Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Routine Q&A, general information retrieval, and high-throughput scenarios where response speed is the priority.
Fast, single-pass responses without an explicit reasoning trace, making it suitable for direct text generation tasks.
High-volume conversational workflows, including multi-turn chat with large shared context.
Long-document analysis and summarization.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "x-ai/grok-4-20-0309-non-reasoning", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "x-ai/grok-4-20-0309-non-reasoning", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"x-ai/grok-4-20-0309-non-reasoning","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
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| Benchmark | Score | What it measures | Source | Retrieved |
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| Intelligence | 25.7 | Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial Analysis | Source | September 12, 2026 |
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Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning This page | Coding + agents | |||
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| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning has a 2,000,000 tokens context window and can return up to 1,999,000 tokens.
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use x-ai/grok-4-20-0309-non-reasoning as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning is priced at input $1.625 / 1M tokens, output $3.25 / 1M tokens, cached input $0.26 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning accepts image input alongside text.
Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning was built by xAI .
No, it is a non-reasoning model designed for standard text generation without extended reasoning traces.
It supports function calling, structured outputs, web search, tools, and parallel tool calls.
