Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini offers 293.5K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Grok 2 is $13.00 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
11 months newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5 Mini
Grok 2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Grok 2
GPT-5 Mini
Grok 2
GPT-5 Mini
Grok 2
xAI