Grok 4.5

xAIflagship

xAI's July 2026 flagship at $2 input / $6 output per 1M tokens — notable for keeping a 3:1 output-to-input ratio where most rivals charge 5-6x, which makes it materially cheaper than headline comparisons suggest on generation-heavy work. 500K context, Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 54. Watch three things: prompts over 200K tokens double in price, Grok 4.5 is excluded from the batch discount that applies to Grok 4.3, and tools bill separately (Web/X Search and Code Execution at $5 per 1,000 calls, File Attachments at $10 per 1,000). Cached input is quoted between $0.30 and $0.50 depending on source — verify in the console before modelling costs.

Context Window

500K

tokens

Max Output

33K

tokens

Input Price

$2

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$6

per 1M tokens

Speed

88

tokens/sec

Released

Jul 2026

2026-07-08

Blended Cost

$4.00

per 1M tokens

Value Score

23.5

quality per $

Capabilities

ChatVisionFunction CallingCode GenerationReasoningSearch

Benchmarks

Quality Index
94
MMLU Pro
89.2
HumanEval (Coding)
92
MATH
90.2
Arena ELO
1499

Price vs Quality

6080100$1.00$10.00$100.00Blended cost per 1M tokens (log scale) →GPT-4o — $6.25/1M, quality 85GPT-4o Mini — $0.375/1M, quality 72o3 Mini — $2.75/1M, quality 88o3 — $5.00/1M, quality 94GPT-4.1 — $5.00/1M, quality 89Claude Opus 4 — $45.00/1M, quality 91Claude Sonnet 4 — $9.00/1M, quality 88Claude 3.5 Haiku — $2.40/1M, quality 75Gemini 2.5 Pro — $5.63/1M, quality 92Gemini 2.0 Flash — $0.250/1M, quality 74Llama 4 Maverick — $0.400/1M, quality 80Llama 4 Scout — $0.275/1M, quality 71Mistral Large 2 — $4.00/1M, quality 79Codestral — $0.600/1M, quality 76DeepSeek V3 — $0.685/1M, quality 86DeepSeek R1 — $1.37/1M, quality 91Grok 3 — $9.00/1M, quality 87Grok 3 Mini — $0.400/1M, quality 78Command R+ — $6.25/1M, quality 68Amazon Nova Pro — $2.00/1M, quality 70Qwen 2.5 72B — $0.600/1M, quality 80Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — $0.300/1M, quality 74Sonar Pro — $9.00/1M, quality 78GPT-5.5 — $17.50/1M, quality 97GPT-5.5 Pro — $105.00/1M, quality 96Claude Opus 4.7 — $15.00/1M, quality 96Gemini 3.1 Pro — $7.00/1M, quality 96DeepSeek V4 Pro — $1.32/1M, quality 89DeepSeek V4 Flash — $0.210/1M, quality 84Qwen 3.6 Plus — $3.50/1M, quality 86Grok 4.3 — $1.88/1M, quality 93Kimi K2.6 — $2.11/1M, quality 92Kimi K3 — $9.00/1M, quality 97Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $9.00/1M, quality 90GLM-5.1 — $2.03/1M, quality 88Claude Opus 4.8 — $15.00/1M, quality 98Qwen 3.7 Max — $5.00/1M, quality 94Claude Fable 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100MiniMax M3 — $1.50/1M, quality 89GPT-5.6 Sol — $17.50/1M, quality 98GPT-5.6 Terra — $7.00/1M, quality 93GPT-5.6 Luna — $0.700/1M, quality 83Gemini 3.6 Flash — $2.25/1M, quality 90Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — $1.40/1M, quality 79Claude Sonnet 5 — $9.00/1M, quality 93GLM-5.2 — $2.90/1M, quality 91Claude Opus 5 — $15.00/1M, quality 99Claude Mythos 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100Qwen3.8 Max — $4.00/1M, quality 96Grok 4.5 — $4.00/1M, quality 94Grok 4.5
Cheaper is left, more capable is up. Nothing in the directory is both cheaper and at least as capable. Self-host models are left off the price axis — their cost depends on the hardware you run them on, not on tokens.

Context Window in Context

  • Grok 4.5500K
  • Amazon Nova Pro300K
  • Qwen3.8 27B262K
  • Codestral256K
  • Nemotron 3 Nano Omni256K
  • Qwen 3.6 Plus256K
  • Kimi K2.6256K
  • Hunyuan Hy3256K
Bar length is logarithmic — each full step is 10× the tokens. Shown against the models with the nearest context windows, not the directory extremes.

Not on our gateway yet

Swfte Connect does not hold a key for Grok 4.5, so there is nothing to run here. Add your own provider key and call it with the same API as every other model in this directory.

The request
curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "xai:grok-4.5",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
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About Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is a flagship AI model by xAI, released on July 8, 2026. It supports a context window of 500K tokens and can generate up to 33K output tokens.

At $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $4.00/1M tokens puts it in the mid-range pricing tier. Its value score of 23.5 reflects the balance of quality and cost.

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