Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning

by xAI

Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning prioritizes speed and throughput by skipping the chain-of-thought reasoning phase, returning direct responses with low latency. It handles the same multimodal inputs as the reasoning variant and keeps a 2 million token context window, making it suitable for applications where fast responses matter more than step-by-step deliberation. This variant is aimed at high-throughput, real-time use cases such as customer support, content generation, and straightforward information retrieval where a quick first response is the priority. By skipping reasoning tokens it reduces latency on each request. Released in November 2025 alongside xAI's Agent Tools API, Grok 4.1 Fast was trained with long-horizon reinforcement learning for consistent tool calling across its full context window, giving the non-reasoning mode strong agentic behavior at speed.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
2M
Max output
30K
Input price
$0.20 /1M$0.05 cache read
Output price
$0.50 /1M
  • Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
MultiNo$0.20$0.50$0.05

Uptime and availability

Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.40%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

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Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Google Cloud — Multi-region

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for abuse monitoring only, for a window the provider does not state, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, window not stated.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, 90 days, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

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