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DeepSeek R1 vs Grok 4.5
List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Grok 4.5 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek R1 is the cheapest — 70% less than the priciest here ($146.00/mo vs $480.00/mo).
| DeepSeek R1 | Grok 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.500 | $2.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $2.15 | $6.00 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0015 | $0.0048 |
| Context window | 163,840 tokens | 500k tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | — |
| Quality score | 84/100 | 90/100 |
| Tier | Flagship | Flagship |
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | DeepSeek R1 | Grok 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $1.46 | $4.80 |
| 10,000 | $14.60 | $48.00 |
| 100,000 | $146.00 | $480.00 |
DeepSeek R1
Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.
Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.
Grok 4.5
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