Output tokens cost $0.31 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $6.00 per million on grok-4.5. Input tokens cost $0.15 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $2.00 per million on grok-4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.00 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $0.50 per million on grok-4.5. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash and 1,000,000 tokens on grok-4.5. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.2s on deepseek-v4-flash and 1.8s on grok-4.5. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tokens/s on deepseek-v4-flash and 38.4 tokens/s on grok-4.5.
deepseek-v4-flash
grok-4.5DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.
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. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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deepseek-v4-flash: $0.31/M output tokens; grok-4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
deepseek-v4-flash: 1.2s first-token latency measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
deepseek-v4-flash accepts 1,000,000 and grok-4.5 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash and 1,000,000 tokens on grok-4.5.
deepseek-v4-flash at 101.3 tokens/s and grok-4.5 at 38.4 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
deepseek-v4-flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; grok-4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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