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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
Vendorx-aix-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.050.6
Input Price$2.00/M$1.25/M
Output Price$6.00/M$2.50/M
Context Window500,0002,000,000
Max Output450,0001,800,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index64.042.3
eqbench-55.8

Who wins by task?

TaskSpaceXAI: Grok 4.5SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
SQL Generation 140 142
Code Review 144 146
Code Completion 119 121
Code Refactoring 146 150
Bug Fixing 148 150
Unit Test Generation 131 133
Code Documentation 136 139
Regex Writing 124 125
CI/CD Pipelines 127 129
Frontend Component Design 129 129
Data Analysis 133 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 138
ETL Scripting 137 139
JSON Extraction 122 123
Bulk Data Labeling 119 120
OCR / Document Parsing 134 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 134
Long-Document Summarization 147 151
Short-Form Summarization 117 118
Blog Post Writing 128 130

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

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