Models

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking vs Grok 4.5

Compare Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking from Anthropic and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.5 ThinkingGrokGrok 4.5
Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking
Anthropic · image, text → text

Claude Opus 4.5 does not enable reasoning mode by default. To access its deep reasoning capabilities, users would typically need to call the native Claude API. To make this capability available through an OpenAI-compatible interface, we provide the claude-opus-4-5-think model, which has reasoning mode pre-enabled and a default 32k-token context window, allowing it to be called directly via the OpenAI unified API. Claude Opus 4.5 Think is a reasoning-focused variant of Claude Opus 4.5 designed for advanced tasks that require rigorous reasoning, complex decision-making, and long-chain analysis. Aside from its enhanced reasoning mechanism, all other capabilities remain consistent with the standard Claude Opus 4.5 model, making it well suited for complex engineering problem decomposition, multi-stage planning, and logic-intensive analysis.

Input$5.00 /M
Output$25.00 /M
Grok logo
Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

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.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$6.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$5.00
$2.00
Output /M
$25.00
$6.00
Cache read /M
$0.50
$0.50
Context length
200,000
500,000
Max output
32,000
500,000
Time to First Token
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2.5 s
Throughput
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28.9 tok/s
Modalities
imagetext
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
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July 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-opus-4-5-thinkgrok-4.5
1420146015001540
Overall
14701473
Coding
15231530
Math
14701478
Hard prompts
14951499
Instruction following
14661484
Multi-turn
14771487
Creative writing
14491468
Longer query
14851495
Chinese
14981511
English
14751484
WebDev Arena
claude-opus-4-5-thinkgrok-4.5
14601500154015801620
Overall
14901556
React
14771559
HTML
15031577
Gaming
15861586
Simulations
15981598
Data analytics
15221522

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Grok 4.5
$210 /mo
Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking, Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5: $6.00/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking: 1530; Grok 4.5: 1523 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking accepts 200,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking accepts image and 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.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking and Grok 4.5 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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