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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
Vendorx-aix-ai
Quality Score100100
Input Price$2.00/M$2.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$6.00/M
Context Window500,000500,000
Max Output450,000450,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $3.50 at current list prices.

Both read up to 500,000 tokens at once, roughly 750 pages of text.

Grok 4.6 was released in August 2026 and Grok 4.5 in July 2026.

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

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