Models

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview vs Grok 4.5

Output tokens cost $0.60 per million on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Input tokens cost $0.15 per million on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.08 per million on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5. Context lengths are 128,000 tokens on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.6s on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and 2.0s on Grok 4.5. Measured output throughput is 189.0 tok/s on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and 25.9 tok/s on Grok 4.5.

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GPT 4o Mini Search Preview
OpenAI · text, image → text

Using the Chat Completions API, you can directly access the fine-tuned models and tool used by Search in ChatGPT. When using Chat Completions, the model always retrieves information from the web before responding to your query. To use web_search_preview as a tool that models like gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini invoke only when necessary, switch to using the Responses API. Currently, you need to use one of these models to use web search in Chat Completions: gpt-4o-search-preview gpt-4o-mini-search-preview Web search parameter example import OpenAI from "openai"; const client = new OpenAI(); const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({ model: "gpt-4o-search-preview", web_search_options: {}, messages: [{ "role": "user", "content": "What was a positive news story from today?" }], }); console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content); Output and citations The API response item in the choices array will include: message.content with the text result from the model, inclusive of any inline citations annotations with a list of cited URLs By default, the model's response will include inline citations for URLs found in the web search results. In addition to this, the url_citation annotation object will contain the URL and title of the cited source, as well as the start and end index characters in the model's response where those sources were used.

Input$0.15 /M
Output$0.60 /M
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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.

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$0.15
$2.00
Output /M
$0.60
$6.00
Cache read /M
$0.08
$0.50
Context length
128,000
500,000
Max output
16,384
500,000
Time to First Token
1.6 s
2.0 s
Throughput
189.0 tok/s
25.9 tok/s
Modalities
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Supported Parameters
webfunction 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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Cost calculator

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

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview
$18.00 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GPT 4o Mini Search Preview, Grok 4.5?

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview: $0.60/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview accepts 128,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,384 tokens on GPT 4o Mini Search Preview and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview at 189.0 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 25.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GPT 4o Mini Search Preview accepts text and image input and supports web search, 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 GPT 4o Mini Search Preview 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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