BREAKING
Grok 4.5 Undercuts Rivals on Cost
0
$
Grok 4.5 per task
0
%
cheaper than Fable 5
Intelligence Index Scores
Fable 5
60
GPT-5.6 Sol
59
Opus 4.8
56
Grok 4.5
54
Cost Per Task Compared
Fable 5
2.75
Opus 4.8
1.8
Grok 4.5
0.31
Value Pick With Trade-Offs
Strengths
Value
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60% fewer output tokens than Opus 4.8
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Approaches Fable 5 on coding agents
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Cheap for heavy agentic use
Cautions
Watch
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Lags Fable 5 on hardest coding
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Higher hallucination risk
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Leaner token budget
Pricing Over Peak Benchmarks
AI NEWS BLITZ
xAI's Grok 4.5 is reframing the frontier-model race around cost, not just raw benchmarks.