xAI (Grok)

Grok 4.5

SpaceXAI's frontier coding and agentic model, with a 500K context window, reasoning effort control, and long-context tiered pricing at or above 200K input tokens.

ActiveReleased July 8, 2026Knowledge cutoff February 1, 2026Available from 2 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: xAI API docs, xAI console

Price per 1M tokens
$2 in / $6 out
Context window500,000
Cache read$0.3 / M
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across2 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$2 / M
Output$6 / M
Cache read$0.3 / M

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Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$760
at current list prices
Fresh input$400
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$360
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The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
xAILowest
$2$6$0.3—First-party API
Cursor
$2$6$0.5—Direct

Price history

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EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
July 9, 2026 – July 19, 2026$2 / $6past
July 19, 2026$2 / $6current

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