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xAI Launches Budget-Friendly Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 costs $2 per million input tokens, significantly undercutting its rivals. While xAI admits the model trails GPT-5.5 in coding benchmarks, it requires 4.2 times fewer tokens than Opus 4.8. This pricing strategy prioritizes cost-efficiency over raw performance. Developers can now trade slight benchmark losses for drastically lower operational overhead.