Models

Grok 4.5 vs Union Alpha (free)

Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Union Alpha (free) from Stealth 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 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
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Union Alpha (free)
Stealth · text, image → text

Developed by Stealth, Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows. It delivers frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. Featuring a massive 262,144 token context window, this model is highly capable of handling extensive and complex tasks.

Input$0 /M
Output$0 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Grok 4.5
Union Alpha (free)
Input /M
$2
$0
Output /M
$6
$0
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
500,000
262,144
Max output
500,000
0
Time to First Token
2.5 s
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Throughput
44.2 tok/s
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Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
July 2026
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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.

Union Alpha (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 Union Alpha (free) accepts 262,144 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; Union Alpha (free) accepts text and image input.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Union Alpha (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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