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Grok 4.5 Pricing

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xAI · 500K tokens context

Grok 4.5 from xAI costs $2.00 per 1 million input tokens and $6.00 per 1 million output tokens as of July 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 500,000-token context window (approximately 375,000 words) with a 32K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0020 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0200.

Grok 4.5 pricing and capability summary
Input price$2.00 / 1M tokens
Output price$6.00 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio3.0×
Context window500,000 tokens (~375,000 words)
Maximum output32,000 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0020
TierFlagship
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Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model with frontier performance on coding, knowledge work, and STEM.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$2.00

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$6.00

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

500K tokens

max 32K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.00267$0.0024
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.00667$0.006
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.01$0.009
100K token document100,000$0.20$0.18

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Large 500K-token context window
  • Frontier-class quality on complex tasks
  • Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

Complex research and analysis
Advanced coding and architecture
Multimodal document understanding
High-stakes production workloads

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