Grok 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8
A side-by-side comparison of Grok 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 — intelligence, context, capabilities, and price.
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| Context window | 500K | 1M |
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Grok 4.5 pricing
- Under 200K prompt tokens · Input$2 / 1M tokens
- Under 200K prompt tokens · Cached input$0.3 / 1M tokens
- Under 200K prompt tokens · Output$6 / 1M tokens
- 200K+ prompt tokens · Input$4 / 1M tokens
- 200K+ prompt tokens · Cached input$0.6 / 1M tokens
- 200K+ prompt tokens · Output$12 / 1M tokens
- Web search (when used)$5 / 1,000 calls
Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.
View Grok 4.5details →Claude Opus 4.8 pricing
- Input$5 / 1M tokens
- Cached input$0.5 / 1M tokens
- 5m cache write$6.25 / 1M tokens
- 1h cache write$10 / 1M tokens
- Output$25 / 1M tokens
- Web search (when used)$10 / 1,000 searchs
Provider-equivalent rates. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.
View Claude Opus 4.8details →Grok 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: FAQ
- Is Grok 4.5 better than Claude Opus 4.8?
- xAI's smartest model, trained alongside Cursor for coding and agentic work. 500K context, always-on reasoning, live X knowledge, at a competitive price. Frontier all-rounder. Leads SWE-bench Pro (69%) at AA Intelligence Index v4.1 of 56 — the value pick just below Fable 5. The best choice depends on your workload — compare context window, capabilities, and price above, or try both on TryAI.
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4.5 or Claude Opus 4.8?
- See the pricing rows above for live per-token or per-generation costs. TryAI bills both from one pay-as-you-go balance.