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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
Vendoropenaix-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-91.2
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$10.00/M$6.00/M
Context Window1,050,000500,000
Max Output128,000450,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-88.8
ai_index_agentic-75.4
ai_index_coding-100.0

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok 4.5 costs $3.50 and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) costs $4.50, so Grok 4.5 is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok 4.5.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Grok 4.5 on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch) if you need long documents; pick Grok 4.5 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
SQL Generation 132 171
Code Review 132 167
Code Completion 117 120
Code Refactoring 136 164
Bug Fixing 136 180
Unit Test Generation 124 154
Code Documentation 129 142
Regex Writing 117 135
CI/CD Pipelines 120 144
Frontend Component Design 122 146
Data Analysis 124 170
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 154
ETL Scripting 128 154
JSON Extraction 121 139
Bulk Data Labeling 118 125
OCR / Document Parsing 131 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 146
Long-Document Summarization 136 159
Short-Form Summarization 113 123
Blog Post Writing 120 140

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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