DEAD MODELS
← the graveyard
grok-4-fast-reasoning (xAI) was retired on May 15, 2026; calls are now answered by grok-4.3 (low reasoning effort) instead of failing.

grok-4-fast-reasoning

grok-4-fast-reasoning (xAI) was retired on May 15, 2026; calls are now answered by grok-4.3 (low reasoning effort) instead of failing.

Provider
xAI
Shutdown
May 15, 2026, calls now go to grok-4.3 (low reasoning effort)
Announced
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Replace with
grok-4.3
Also written as
xai/grok-4-fast-reasoning
  • xAI 'retired' this slug but requests are auto-redirected (not rejected): calls succeed, served by grok-4.3 (low reasoning effort) and billed at its price. Flag as retired-with-redirect, not as a hard failure.
  • Effective 12:00 PM PT on 2026-05-15.

Source: https://docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement · report a wrong date

Is grok-4-fast-reasoning in your code?

$ npx dead-models