Output tokens cost $2.50 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Input tokens cost $0.30 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.03 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5. Context lengths are 1,048,576 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.5s on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 2.2s on Grok 4.5. Measured output throughput is 62.7 tok/s on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 27.4 tok/s on Grok 4.5. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores 1500 and Grok 4.5 scores 1523.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Grok 4.5Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a low-latency, cost-effective multimodal model optimized for high-throughput, low-cost execution for subagent tasks and document parsing. The model supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for high-volume agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where latency and API cost are the primary constraints.
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. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: $2.50/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 1500 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 0.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts 1,048,576 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite at 62.7 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 27.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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