Models

grok-4.5 vs muse-spark-1.1

Output tokens cost $6.00 per million on grok-4.5 and $4.68 per million on muse-spark-1.1. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on grok-4.5 and $1.38 per million on muse-spark-1.1. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on grok-4.5 and $1.38 per million on muse-spark-1.1. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on grok-4.5 and 1,000,000 tokens on muse-spark-1.1. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.0s on grok-4.5 and 5.9s on muse-spark-1.1. Measured output throughput is 41.7 tok/s on grok-4.5 and 183.7 tok/s on muse-spark-1.1. On the LMArena coding leaderboard grok-4.5 scores 1521 and muse-spark-1.1 scores 1531.

Grokgrok-4.5Metamuse-spark-1.1
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$2.00 /M
Output$6.00 /M
Meta logo
muse-spark-1.1
Meta · text, image, audio, video → text

Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta, built for agentic tasks. It accepts text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents and returns text, with a 1M-token context window.

Input$1.38 /M
Output$4.68 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

grok-4.5
muse-spark-1.1
Input /M
$2.00
$1.38
Output /M
$6.00
$4.68
Cache read /M
$0.50
$1.38
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
1,000,000
0
Time to First Token
2.0 s
5.9 s
Throughput
41.7 tok/s
183.7 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimageaudiovideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
thinkingtools
API Formats

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.

grok-4.5muse-spark-1.1

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.

grok-4.5muse-spark-1.1

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-4.5muse-spark-1.1
1420146015001540
Overall
14691489
Coding
15211531
Math
14801488
Hard prompts
14941509
Instruction following
14651474
Multi-turn
14731497
Creative writing
14451446
Longer query
14781484
Chinese
15181536
English
14741490
Vision
grok-4.5muse-spark-1.1
126013001340
Overall
12821285
OCR
12931296
Diagram
12991328
Homework
12791337
WebDev Arena
grok-4.5muse-spark-1.1
1500154015801620
Overall
15371554
React
15301555
HTML
15351582
Gaming
15421584
Simulations
15471602
Data analytics
15201530

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.

muse-spark-1.1
$153 /mo
grok-4.5
$210 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: grok-4.5, muse-spark-1.1?

muse-spark-1.1: $4.68/M output tokens; grok-4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

muse-spark-1.1: 1531; grok-4.5: 1521 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

grok-4.5: 2.0s 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 1,000,000 and muse-spark-1.1 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

muse-spark-1.1 at 183.7 tok/s and grok-4.5 at 41.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

grok-4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; muse-spark-1.1 accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking and tool calling.

Can I call grok-4.5 and muse-spark-1.1 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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