Output tokens cost $6.00 per million on grok-4.5 and $8.00 per million on mai-thinking-1. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on grok-4.5 and $2.00 per million on mai-thinking-1. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on grok-4.5 and $2.00 per million on mai-thinking-1. Context lengths are 500,000 tokens on grok-4.5 and 256,000 tokens on mai-thinking-1. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 4.3s on grok-4.5 and 6.7s on mai-thinking-1. Measured output throughput is 32.4 tok/s on grok-4.5 and 41.7 tok/s on mai-thinking-1.
grok-4.5
mai-thinking-1Grok 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.
MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft’s first inference model in the MAI series, built for enterprise-scale workloads. With excellent reasoning, mathematical, and general intelligence capabilities, combined with superior cost-effectiveness, it makes high-throughput, 24/7 AI workloads economically viable.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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grok-4.5: $6.00/M output tokens; mai-thinking-1: $8.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
grok-4.5: 4.3s 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 mai-thinking-1 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on grok-4.5 and 256,000 tokens on mai-thinking-1.
mai-thinking-1 at 41.7 tok/s and grok-4.5 at 32.4 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; mai-thinking-1 accepts text input and supports thinking and structured outputs.
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