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 | Grok Build 0.1xAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | xAI |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Balanced |
| Added | Jul 8, 2026 | May 20, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 500KBest | 256K |
| Average output | 1K tokens | 3K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $1.00Best |
| Output | $6.00 | $2.00Best |
| Cache read | $0.30 | $0.20Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 54.2 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.5 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 38.8Best | 27.2 |
| Coding Index | 72.4Best | 51.5 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Grok 4.5
- Grok Build 0.1
Intelligence Index
- Grok 4.538.8
- Grok Build 0.127.2
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: 72.4Top
- Grok Build 0.1: 51.5
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Grok 4.5: 57.9%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Grok 4.5: 26.3%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Grok 4.5: 1,278 Elo
- Grok Build 0.1: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Grok 4.5: 1,381 EloTop
- Grok Build 0.1: 1,065 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Grok 4.5: 18.8%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Grok 4.5: 79.3%Top
- Grok Build 0.1: 74.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Grok 4.5: 16.1%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Grok 4.5: 42.7%Top
- Grok Build 0.1: 38.3%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Grok 4.5: 93.1%Top
- Grok Build 0.1: 89.5%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Grok 4.5: 10.6%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Grok 4.5: 55.0%
- Grok Build 0.1: —
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Grok 4.5: 79.3%Top
- Grok Build 0.1: 74.7%
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
- Grok Build 0.1
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | #16 · 1330.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | #14 · 1280.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Search Overall | #10 · 1215.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Style Control Overall | #16 · 1464.3 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Grok 4.5
- Grok Build 0.1
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | #20 · 42.4% | Not in top 20 |
| FrontierCode Extended | #18 · 56.5% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- Grok 4.5
- Grok Build 0.1
| Leaderboard | Grok 4.5 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | #16 · 0.3% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
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
- 64.6%
- About $0.90 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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