Models

Grok 4.5 vs Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free)

Context lengths are 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 128,000 tokens on Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free).

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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
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Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free)
Nvidia · text, image → text

Developed by Nvidia, Nemotron-Nano-12B-V2-VL-Free is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It features a powerful 128,000-token context length to handle extensive visual and textual inputs. The model utilizes a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, successfully combining transformer-level accuracy with Mamba's structural advantages.

Input$0.00 /M
Output$0.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Grok 4.5
Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free)
Input /M
$2.00
$0.00
Output /M
$6.00
$0.00
Cache read /M
$0.50
$0.00
Context length
500,000
128,000
Max output
500,000
0
Time to First Token
1.6 s
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Throughput
25.2 tok/s
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Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
reasoningtool callinglong context
API Formats
chat_completions
Released
July 2026
October 28, 2025

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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Cost calculator

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

Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free)
$0.00 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

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

FAQ

How large is each context window?

Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free) accepts 128,000 input tokens.

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; Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free) accepts text and image input and supports reasoning, tool calling and long context.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL (free) 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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