Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Yi Lightning from Yi on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Grok 4.5
Yi LightningGrok 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.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Yi Lightning: $0.2/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; Yi Lightning: 1369 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
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