Output tokens cost $1.68 per million on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Input tokens cost $0.56 per million on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.56 per million on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5. Context lengths are 128,000 tokens on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.3s on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and 1.7s on Grok 4.5. Measured output throughput is 31.5 tok/s on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and 26.2 tok/s on Grok 4.5. On the LMArena coding leaderboard DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking scores 1458 and Grok 4.5 scores 1523.
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking
Grok 4.5Thinking mode of DeepSeek-V3.1; DeepSeek V3.1 is a text generation model provided by DeepSeek, featuring a hybrid reasoning architecture that achieves an effective integration of thinking and non-thinking modes.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: $1.68/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 1458 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 1.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking accepts 128,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking at 31.5 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 26.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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