Output tokens cost $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5 and $4.40 per million on O4 Mini. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5 and $1.10 per million on O4 Mini. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5 and $0.28 per million on O4 Mini. Context lengths are 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 200,000 tokens on O4 Mini. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.8s on Grok 4.5 and 5.8s on O4 Mini. Measured output throughput is 26.6 tok/s on Grok 4.5 and 93.9 tok/s on O4 Mini. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Grok 4.5 scores 1523 and O4 Mini scores 1432.
Grok 4.5
O4 MiniGrok 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.
o4-mini is a remarkably smart model for its speed and cost-efficiency. This allows it to support significantly higher usage limits than o3, making it a strong high-volume, high-throughput option for everyone with questions that benefit from reasoning.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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O4 Mini: $4.40/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; O4 Mini: 1432 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Grok 4.5: 1.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and O4 Mini accepts 200,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 100,000 tokens on O4 Mini.
O4 Mini at 93.9 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 26.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; O4 Mini accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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