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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 · 2026-10-17

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 2/4
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score72.4%
Perf per $/Mtok24.1
GPQA Diamond
92.9%
SWE-Bench Verified
86.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 vendor
83.3%
LiveCodeBench
87.4%
Humanity's Last Exam
42.7%
ARC-AGI 2
52.6%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 38.8 (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 #41 of 100 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #40 of 195 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 9 independent measurements
  • Ranks #127 of 195 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at GPQA Diamond — 92.9%, #19 of 73

88.2 tokens/sec output

Source: ARC Prize verified leaderboard, ARC-AGI-2 semi-private eval, High effort, Artificial Analysis, Artificial Analysis (text-only, no tools, high) · 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