Grok Reasoning Models
Leverage reasoning across the Grok range: configurable Grok 4.5, 4.20 reasoning variants, reasoning tokens, billing, and use cases.
12 lessons About 1 h Developer
What you'll learn
- Choose between Grok 4.5 and reasoning variants based on the actual task complexity
- Set the reasoning effort (low, medium, high) to balance response quality and latency
- Retrieve the reasoning content with include and reinject it into subsequent requests
- Calculate the cost of a request by accounting for billed reasoning tokens
- Limit consumption with max_completion_tokens and identify cases where reasoning is unnecessary
Course details
- Who it's for
- Developers, engineers, and integrators looking to leverage Grok via API in their applications.
- Prerequisites
- Ability to read Python and JSON, command line basics. An API key from the xAI console to try the examples.
- Length
- 1 h · 12 lessons
- Format
- 100% online self-paced course, accessible 24/7 from a browser. Progress saved, resume anytime. Estimated duration: 1 h.
- Assessment
- Self-assessment based on the Key takeaways concluding each lesson, and direct implementation of examples on your own examples. A final quiz of 5 corrected questions at the end of the last lesson validates learning.
- Accessibility
- Self-paced course accessible to people with disabilities: text content compatible with screen readers, keyboard navigation, and compliant contrasts. For any adaptation needs, email [email protected].
- Price
- Free
- Recognition
- Certificate of completion issued by Corsen AI, verifiable online.
- Syllabus
- Download the syllabus (PDF)