Use xAI web search with Grok 3 Mini Beta

by xAIWeb search

Grok 3 Mini Beta has its own web search, and auto uses it. On every other route and endpoint Opper's engine runs the search.

UsexAI web searchwithin

Add xAI web search to Grok 3 Mini Beta

Set up with agents

Paste this into your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more) and it will set up and build with Opper for you.

Get your API key

In your code

1curl https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat/chat/completions \
2  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPPER_API_KEY" \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{"model": "xai/grok-3-mini-beta",
5       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What changed in the news today?"}],
6       "tools": [{"type": "opper:web_search"}]}'

Where you can run it

Grok 3 Mini Beta runs xAI web search on the routes below.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
xAI	Multi		No	$0.30	$0.50	$0.07
xAI	Multi		No	$0.30	$0.50	$0.07

The model

Grok 3 Mini Beta

by xAI

Grok 3 Mini Beta by xAI brings visible reasoning, tool calling, and structured outputs to lightweight reasoning tasks.

Available on

xAI

Pricing from$0.30/ 1M input$0.50/ 1M output$0.07/ 1M cache read131Kcontext

Privacy

ZDR
Training: No
Region: Multi

Use xAI web search with other models

Step-by-step setup for xAI web search on each of these models through Opper.

Grok 4.7 Grok 4.6 Grok 4.5 Grok 4.3 Grok 3 Mini Grok Build 0.1 See all 700+ models

More tools on Opper

Jina search

Opper's default search engine for models without their own. Search processing stays in the EU.

Search"engine": "jina"

SearchBase

The Swedish open-source search API, on Europe's own Staan index and hosted in the EU.

Search"engine": "searchbase"

Exa search

Exa's search engine built for AI, on any tool-calling model through one tool entry. US-based.

Search"engine": "exa"