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Grok 4.5

xAIReleased 8 Jul 2026ClosedFlagship
163152–174Index score#36 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 15 anchor tests
−22Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude Fable 5Replaced by Grok 4.6
$2.0/ $6.0Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
500KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Claude Opus 4.6 reached this score 5 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
93%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
57%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
56%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
53%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

API providers 1 · per million tokens, in / out

xxAI$4.0 / $12cheapest

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

Facts and sources

Released8 Jul 2026
Announcementx.ai ↗
Release entryGrok 4.5
Scored asGrok 4.5
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

xAI releasesaround this one