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Grok 4.5

Available

Model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work with configurable reasoning.

Access details: xAI API

An alias. The provider can point it at a newer version.

grok-4.5
Updated Sep 23, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
500K
Maximum output
Not published
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on xAI's pricing page.

Full rate card 6 rates

All prices in USD.

Short-context input

$2.00 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt below 200k tokens

Short-context cache read

$0.30 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt below 200k tokens
  • cache hit

Short-context output

$6.00 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt below 200k tokens

Long-context input

$4.00 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt at or above 200k tokens
  • rate applies to all tokens in request

Long-context cache read

$0.60 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt at or above 200k tokens
  • rate applies to all tokens in request
  • cache hit

Long-context output

$12.00 USD per 1M tokens
  • prompt at or above 200k tokens
  • rate applies to all tokens in request

Standard global Text API rates. Batch API is not supported for Grok 4.5. Priority Processing is billed at 2x standard rates.

Price history
Sep 23, 2026

Input $2.00 per million tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Output $6.00 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
Not published
Active parameters
Not published
Architecture
Not published
Training / knowledge cutoff
February 1, 2026
Input modalities
Text, image
Output modalities
Text

Release & lifecycle

First available
Jul 8, 2026
available
As of Sep 13, 2026

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Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. xAI's own pages have the latest.