Grok 4.5 pricing: real cost per million tokens
What SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 really costs across 4 plans from 3 providers: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.
Data updated · How real prices are computed
As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use Grok 4.5 is Cursor Ultra at a real cost of about $0.02585 per million tokens ($200/month for roughly 7.737B tokens a month). We track 4 plans and API channels that serve Grok 4.5. Official API list price per million tokens: $0.3 cached input, $2 input, $6 output — about $0.371 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
- Lowest real price
- $0.02585/MTokCursor Ultra
- API list price
- $0.371/MTokstandard workload mix
- Most monthly tokens
- 7.737BCursor Ultra
- Plans & APIs
- 44 subscriptions · 0 metered APIs
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Grok 4.5 plans and real prices
Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.
| Plan | Provider | Billing | Monthly fee | Monthly tokens | Real $/MTok | vs API | Confidence | Data date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Ultra | Cursor | Subscription | $200/mo | 7.737B | $0.02585 | 14.4× | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| SuperGrok | SpaceXAI | Subscription | $30/mo | 0.516B | $0.05814 | 6.4× | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| SuperGrok Heavy | SpaceXAI | Subscription | $300/mo | 5.16B | $0.05814 | 6.4× | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| Command Code GOAT | Command Code | Subscription | $10/mo | 0.035B | $0.2825 | 1.3× | Medium | Evidence ↓ |
Behind each number
For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.
Cursor UltraCursor$0.0258498/MTok
- Plan
- Cursor Ultra · Cursor
- Data date
- 2026-08-26 – 2026-09-05 · derived; uses the data date of Cursor Ultra · grok-4.6
- Real price / MTok
- $0.0258498
- Monthly tokens
- 7,737,000,000 (7.737B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $200 / month ÷ 7,737,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0258498 / MTok
- Quota basis
Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.3 / $2 / $6 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.371/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 7.737B × 1.0
Old 8B→7.737B, inheriting the round8 standard baseline; Cursor's official models-and-pricing lists the two models at the same price — not an independent Grok 4.5 measurement; the xAI public-API cache price gap not adopted; see cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.json
cursor-adoption-round8-2026-09-06.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
SuperGrokSpaceXAI$0.0581395/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-08-23 – 2026-09-20 · derived; uses the data date of SuperGrok · grok-4.6
- Real price / MTok
- $0.0581395
- Monthly tokens
- 516,000,000 (0.516B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $30 / month ÷ 516,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0581395 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.3 / $2 / $6 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.371/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 516M × 1.0
Kept the same-subscription-allowance assumption 516M (the normalized baseline follows 4.6); no independent 4.5 panel measurement yet; the xAI API cache price gap cannot map directly to the subscription weekly pool; kept separate from the Cursor channel
SuperGrok HeavySpaceXAI$0.0581395/MTok
- Plan
- SuperGrok Heavy · SpaceXAI
- Data date
- 2026-08-23 – 2026-09-20 · derived; uses the data date of SuperGrok · grok-4.6
- Real price / MTok
- $0.0581395
- Monthly tokens
- 5,160,000,000 (5.16B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $300 / month ÷ 5,160,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0581395 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.3 / $2 / $6 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.371/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan grok-4.6 5.16B × 1.0
Kept the same-subscription-allowance assumption 5.16B (the normalized baseline follows 4.6); no independent 4.5 panel measurement yet; the xAI API cache price gap cannot map directly to the subscription weekly pool; kept separate from the Cursor channel
Command Code GOATCommand Code$0.282486/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-30 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $0.282486
- Monthly tokens
- 35,400,000 (0.035B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $10 / month ÷ 35,400,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.282486 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.3 / $2 / $6 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.371/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goat official per-model allowance and three-part pricing; https://commandcode.ai/pricing; $10->$70 credits; code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.json; goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.json
Added 35.4M: min(shared monthly pool $70, model allowance $20) ÷ project standard-workload weighted price; official three-part pricing; New models default $20. Processing fee ignored; allowances of different models in the same plan are not additive; no usage-panel token+% screenshot — computed from official absolute credits and the price list
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goathttps://commandcode.ai/pricing;code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.jsongoat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Grok 4.5 benchmark scores
Highest archived configuration per leaderboard; ranks are among all models each board archives in this dataset. Scores are never mixed across boards.
| Leaderboard | Metric | Score | Rank | Configuration | Effort | Harness | Configs | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | Intelligence Index | 38.81 | #26 / 60 | Grok 4.5 (high) | High | — | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Resolution Rate % | 12.42 | #16 / 18 | Grok Build - Grok 4.5 (high) | High | Grok Build | 1 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Resolution Rate % | 10.61 | #33 / 53 | Artificial Analysis - Grok 4.5 (high) | High | Artificial Analysis | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Code Arena | WebDev Overall | Arena Score | 1,552 | #30 / 54 | grok-4.5 | — | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) | Net Improvement % | 1.11 | #23 / 39 | Grok 4.5 | — | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Pass@1 % | 53.76 | #23 / 33 | mini-swe-agent - grok-4-5 (high) | High | mini-swe-agent | 1 | 2026-09-03 |
Every archived configuration
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 1 configuration
Terminal-Bench 4.0 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok Build - Grok 4.5 (high)Official Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard row; score belongs to this harness × model × effort configuration. | 12.42 | 9.8 – 15.04 | Grok Build / High / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis - Grok 4.5 (high)AA's own-harness independent measurement of Terminal-Bench 4.0 (the terminalBench40 field in the models-board payload, fraction×100); scored separately from the official tbench.ai board. | 10.6061 | — | Artificial Analysis / High / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Code Arena | WebDev Overall 1 configuration
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) 1 configuration
DeepSWE v1.1 1 configuration
These are reference mappings, not benchmarks of a subscription or API channel. Harness and quota-measurement effort alignment are unverified. Source task costs are not subscription task costs.
- Exact served-model reference; quota-measurement effort is unverified.
- Exact served-model reference only; product harness and quota-measurement effort are unverified. Not a benchmark measurement of this subscription or API channel.
Grok 4.5 official API pricing
| Cached input | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| $0.3 | $2 | $6 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does Grok 4.5 really cost per million tokens?
Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, Grok 4.5 ranges from $0.02585 (Cursor Ultra) to $0.2825 (Command Code GOAT) per million tokens.
Which subscription gives the most Grok 4.5 usage?
Cursor Ultra allows roughly 7.737B tokens of Grok 4.5 per month for $200.
What is the official API price of Grok 4.5?
Official API list price per million tokens: $0.3 cached input, $2 input, $6 output — about $0.371 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
How does Grok 4.5 score on independent leaderboards?
Grok 4.5 has scores on 6 leaderboards; its strongest placement is 38.81 (Intelligence Index) on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, #26 of 60 models tracked.
Who makes Grok 4.5, and where can I use it?
Grok 4.5 (model ID grok-4.5) is made by SpaceXAI and is available through Command Code, Cursor, SpaceXAI.
More SpaceXAI models
| Model | Lowest real $/MTok | Cheapest plan | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.6 | $0.02585 | Cursor Ultra | 12 |
| Grok 4.7 | $0.03959 | Droid Max | 7 |