Grok 4.5 pricing
Grok 4.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens , with cached input at $0.3. Its context window is 500K tokens.
Price per million tokens
| Input | $2 |
| Cached input | $0.3 |
| Output | $6 |
| Context window | 500K tokens |
| Batch discount | not offered |
This model uses tiered pricing: above 200,000 input tokens the rate rises to $4 in / $12 out.
What it costs in practice
Monthly cost for three common workload shapes, with prompt caching applied.
| Workload | Shape | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot | 1.5k in / 400 out, 100k requests/month, 30% cached | $0.00464 | $463.50 |
| RAG / document Q&A | 12k in / 700 out, 50k requests/month, 60% cached | $0.016 | $798.00 |
| Coding agent | 25k in / 2.5k out, 20k requests/month, 80% cached | $0.031 | $620.00 |
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Comparable models from other providers
| Model | Provider | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $2 | $10 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $2 | $12 |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | $2 | $8 |
| o3 | OpenAI | $2 | $8 |
All figures verified 2026-08-18 against xAI's official pricing documentation . Fields the provider does not publish are shown as “—” rather than estimated.