xAI · Frontier
Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's frontier reasoning model for coding, knowledge work, and STEM. It supports text, image, and file inputs with tool calling and structured outputs. Reasoning is always active. Content policy rejections can still be charged: SpaceXAI may pass through a $0.05 moderation-failure fee, or a $0.055 usage-guidelines violation fee, depending on which rejection upstream returns.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $6.00
- Cache read
- $0.30
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 500K
- Max output
- —
- Average output (7 days)
- 1K tokens
- Longer than 71% of 473 models
Side by side
Grok 4.5 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Grok 4.5xAIThis model | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Efficient |
| Added | Jul 8, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 500K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | — | 65.54K |
| Average output | 1K tokens | 850 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $0.75Best |
| Output | $6.00 | $3.75Best |
| Cache read | $0.30 | $0.075Best |
| Cache write | — | $0.0417 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 54.2 tok/s | 111.2 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 2.5 sBest | 5.0 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 98.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 38.8 | 39.1Best |
| Coding Index | 72.4 | 76.1Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high | minimal, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.538.8
- Gemini 3.7 Flash39.1
Grok 4.5 tested at high reasoning effort
Grok 4.5: Better than 83% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Grok 4.5: 72.4
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 76.1Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Grok 4.5: 57.9%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 62.0%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Grok 4.5: 26.3%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 30.0%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Grok 4.5: 1,278 EloTop
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 1,113 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Grok 4.5: 1,381 Elo
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 1,396 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Grok 4.5: 18.8%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 23.6%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Grok 4.5: 79.3%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 81.7%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Grok 4.5: 16.1%Top
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 12.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Grok 4.5: 42.7%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 47.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Grok 4.5: 93.1%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 94.5%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Grok 4.5: 10.6%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 13.6%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Grok 4.5: 55.0%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.2%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Grok 4.5: 79.3%
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 81.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Grok 4.5 was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | #16 · 1330.1 | #2 · 1368.7 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | #14 · 1280.9 | #8 · 1292.2 |
| Search Overall | #10 · 1215.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Style Control Overall | #16 · 1464.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1489.8 |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1505.3 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1501.2 |
| Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1491.6 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1487.1 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1509.1 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1546.4 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1505.3 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1517.3 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1506.9 |
| German | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1505.5 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1484.1 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1478.9 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1496.2 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1513.8 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1502.5 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1493.5 |
| Japanese | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1513.3 |
| Korean | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1480.8 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1489.4 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1485.7 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1499.3 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1516.4 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1487.0 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1295.2 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1320.4 |
| Vision Style Control · English | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1287.4 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1308.9 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1275.3 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1308.3 |
| WebDev · Image To Webdev | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1599.5 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | #20 · 42.4% | #17 · 43.6% |
| FrontierCode Extended | #18 · 56.5% | #19 · 56.3% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | #16 · 0.3% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #14 · 95.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #12 · 84.6% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #17 · 19.8% |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #10 · 13.1% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #17 · 158.0 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Grok 4.5
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1319 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1303 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1292 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1316 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1282 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1305 |
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1277 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1198 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1222 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1208 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1244 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1230 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 54.2 tok/s
- Faster than 38% of 260 models
- Time to first token
- 2.5 s
- Quicker than 66% of 260 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 60.8%
- About $0.97 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "x-ai/grok-4.5",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="x-ai/grok-4.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)xAI
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