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Grok 4.5

by xAI

Current flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$3.00

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Source: official xAI pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

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Overview

An Opus-class frontier model from xAI built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, trained on the 1.5T V9 foundation with Cursor data. ~2x token efficiency vs comparable leaders, 500K context, configurable reasoning effort. $2/$6 per 1M tokens.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 73.6th4 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 24.5
Terminal-Bench 2.1 vendor
83.3%

Every per-benchmark score we hold for this model is reported by its own vendor, so none is counted toward an accuracy average or any ranking. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 39.1 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 25.3 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1526.4 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1468.1 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #29 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 4 independent measurements
  • Ranks #118 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

88.2 tokens/sec output

Source: Artificial Analysis, LMSYS Chatbot Arena (UC Berkeley), xAI Grok 4.5 launch post · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
xAI
Context window
500K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
flagshipmultimodal

Availability verified: listed on xAI's own page