grok-4.5 vs grok-4.6
Side-by-side comparison of grok-4.5 and grok-4.6: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. grok-4.6 outperforms grok-4.5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks.
xAI Corp.
grok-4.5
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Context
500K
Model ID
xai/grok-4.5
xAI Corp.
grok-4.6
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Context
500K
Model ID
xai/grok-4.6
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
grok-4.545.5%
grok-4.650.6%
Coding Indexcoding
grok-4.572.4%
grok-4.676.8%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
grok-4.593.1%
grok-4.694.9%
SciCodecoding
grok-4.555.0%
grok-4.656.5%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
grok-4.542.7%
grok-4.642.9%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| grok-4.5 | grok-4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $6.00 | $6.00 |
| Context window | 500K tokens | 500K tokens |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | xAI Corp. | xAI Corp. |
Questions people ask
Is grok-4.5 better than grok-4.6?
grok-4.6 outperforms grok-4.5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: grok-4.5 and grok-4.6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, grok-4.5 or grok-4.6?
grok-4.5 and grok-4.6 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use grok-4.5 and grok-4.6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "xai/grok-4.5" and "xai/grok-4.6", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
grok-4.5 supports up to 500K tokens of context. grok-4.6 supports up to 500K tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between grok-4.5 and grok-4.6 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.