Grok 4.5 pricing.
Prices checked
Grok 4.5 costs $2 in and $6 out per million tokens from xAI; the cheapest price is $3 at OpenRouter, checked .
xAI's own price
xAI
$2 in · $6 out
240% above the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
OpenRouter
$2 in · $6 out
Nobody sells it for less than xAI with a reason we can point at.
Web search from this model costs $5 per 1,000 searches, plus its tokens; dedicated search APIs from $1
Every provider selling Grok 4.5
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$2 in · $6 out
$3/M tokens - 2
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$3/M tokens - 3Same as maker
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DaoXE
Same as maker$2 in · $6 out
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GitHub Copilot
Same as maker$2 in · $6 out
$3/M tokens - 15Same as maker
$2 in · $6 out
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$2.02 in · $6.06 out
$3.03/M tokens - 33
$2.11 in · $6.33 out
$3.17/M tokens - 34
$2.20 in · $6.60 out
$3.30/M tokens - 35
$2.27 in · $6.80 out
$3.40/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at xAI's own price
A month at OpenRouter, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Evidence
LiveBench · grok-4.5 · published configuration; effort not stated. Published 15 Oct 2026, read 31 Oct 2026.
How it is calculatedEach is a measurement of the stated version and configuration. Two benchmarks are not the same test, and a score is not the chance your own work succeeds.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below xAI's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
- Not ranked
- Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Grok 4.5 does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Grok 4.5's cheapest price, $3 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Grok 4.5 cheapest?
- No provider sells Grok 4.5 below xAI's own price for a reason it publishes. 36 providers sell it at that price or above, and every one of them is on this page.
- Is Grok 4.5 open weights?
- No. xAI keeps the weights, so every price on this page is xAI's own or a resale of it. A price below xAI's here needs a published reason, or it is listed and not ranked.
- How much context does Grok 4.5 hold?
- 500,000 tokens in one call, which is about 500k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Grok 4.5 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $3 per million tokens, xAI's own price is 240% above the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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