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xAI · Grok 4

Grok 4.5

Closed weightsSupersededproprietary

Older Grok model still on xAI pricing; superseded by Grok 4.6 and 4.7.

AA Intelligence
38.8#25 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$2.00/ $6.00
Output speed
62tok/s
Context window
500K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#25 of 142
    39independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#32 of 88
    10.6%independentTerminal-Bench 4.0 (AA harness), highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • SciCode#22 of 94
    55%independenthighArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#31 of 103
    1370independentGDPval-AA, highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#25 of 147
    42.7%independentno tools (AA), highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • GPQA Diamond#15 of 142
    93.1%independentAA, highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • CritPt#29 of 139
    15.4%independenthighArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • ARC-AGI-2#17 of 25
    52.6%independentsemi-private, HighARC Prize leaderboard ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#37 of 139
    79.3%independenthighArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#16 of 72
    80.4%independentAA, highArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#20 of 54
    1468independentgrok-4.5, style control default, vote cutoff 2026-09-13LMArena Text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#27 of 54
    1552independentgrok-4.5, LMArena Code arena (formerly WebDev), vote cutoff 2026-09-23LMArena Code (WebDev) leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA-Omniscience Index · high25.3 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗
AutomationBench-AA (partial score) · high57.9%independentArtificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) ↗

Specs

Released
July 8, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
500K tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.30 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$3.20 / 1M
First token
8.70s
  • Price: xAI (SpaceXAI) API pricing ↗ Standard, short context.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Grok 4.5 (high) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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