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Grok 4.5 Pricing

xAI · x-ai-grok-4-5

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Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$6.00
Context window
500k tokens
667 pages of text
Max output

What it costs in practice

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Grok 4.5 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

The staircase chart appears once a price change is detected.

What it excels at

Handles 500k-token contexts effectively for long-document analysis and multi-step reasoning tasks.

The business tradeoff

Smaller ecosystem and fewer production tooling integrations than OpenAI or Anthropic equivalents.

Cheaper from xAI

Same tier from other providers

Head-to-head

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 8, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.