Grok 4.5 operates at Opus-level intelligence and Sonnet-level pricing!
We tested it against Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and GLM 5.2 on a SpaceX mission: liftoff, stage sep, orbit insertion, satellite deploy.
Grok 4.5 animates it more accurately and vividly than Sonnet 5 and GLM 5.2. Opus is the fastest and most expensive. Grok burns more tokens but still lands ~40% cheaper than Opus, and a bit under Sonnet 5.
Time / tokens / cost:
Grok 4.5 — / 35k / $0.69
Opus 4.8 — / 13.7k / $1.10
Sonnet 5 — / 22.1k / $0.78
GLM 5.2 — / 92.7k / $0.13
yet GLM did the whole mission for $0.13 😮
Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.