Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $6.00 per million on grok-4.5. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $2.00 per million on grok-4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on claude-sonnet-5 and $0.50 per million on grok-4.5. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on claude-sonnet-5 and 1,000,000 tokens on grok-4.5. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 3.3s on claude-sonnet-5 and 1.8s on grok-4.5. Measured output throughput is 91.0 tokens/s on claude-sonnet-5 and 38.4 tokens/s on grok-4.5. On the LMArena coding leaderboard claude-sonnet-5 scores 1526 and grok-4.5 scores 1520.
claude-sonnet-5
grok-4.5Claude Sonnet 5 is the next generation of Anthropic's Sonnet model family. It is a drop-in upgrade for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with three behavior changes: adaptive thinking is on by default, manual extended thinking now returns a 400 error (it was deprecated on Claude Sonnet 4.6), and setting sampling parameters (temperature, top_p, top_k) to non-default values returns a 400 error
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.
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grok-4.5: $6.00/M output tokens; claude-sonnet-5: $10.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
claude-sonnet-5: 1526; grok-4.5: 1520 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
grok-4.5: 1.8s first-token latency measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
claude-sonnet-5 accepts 1,000,000 and grok-4.5 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on claude-sonnet-5 and 1,000,000 tokens on grok-4.5.
claude-sonnet-5 at 91.0 tokens/s and grok-4.5 at 38.4 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
claude-sonnet-5 accepts text and image 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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