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Grok 4.5 vs Llama 3.3 70B

Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Llama 3.3 70B from Llama on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Grok logo
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 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Llama logo
Llama 3.3 70B
Llama · → text

The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out). The Llama 3.3 instruction tuned text only model is optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases and outperforms many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks.

Input$0.6 /M
Output$0.6 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Grok 4.5
Llama 3.3 70B
Input /M
$2
$0.6
Output /M
$6
$0.6
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
500,000
65,536
Max output
500,000
8,192
Time to First Token
4.4 s
0.3 s
Throughput
34.2 tok/s
3250.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
July 2026
December 6, 2024

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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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
grok-4.5llama-3.3-70b
1260134014201500
Overall
13181471
Coding
13451523
Math
12961479
Hard prompts
13211495
Instruction following
12921466
Multi-turn
13171476
Creative writing
12861451
Longer query
13121487
Chinese
12911512
English
13441476

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

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

Llama 3.3 70B
$45.00 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Grok 4.5, Llama 3.3 70B?

Llama 3.3 70B: $0.6/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.5: 1523; Llama 3.3 70B: 1345 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Llama 3.3 70B: 0.3s 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?

Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Llama 3.3 70B accepts 65,536 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 8,192 tokens on Llama 3.3 70B.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 3.3 70B at 3250.0 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 34.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Llama 3.3 70B 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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