Grok 4.5 vs GPT-5.5
A side-by-side comparison of Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.5 — intelligence, context, capabilities, and price.
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| Context window | 500K | 1.1M |
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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 →GPT-5.5 pricing
- Up to 272K prompt tokens · Input$5 / 1M tokens
- Up to 272K prompt tokens · Cached input$0.5 / 1M tokens
- Up to 272K prompt tokens · Output$30 / 1M tokens
- Over 272K prompt tokens · Input$10 / 1M tokens
- Over 272K prompt tokens · Cached input$1 / 1M tokens
- Over 272K prompt tokens · Output$45 / 1M tokens
- Web search (when used)$10 / 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 GPT-5.5details →Grok 4.5 vs GPT-5.5: FAQ
- Is Grok 4.5 better than GPT-5.5?
- xAI's smartest model, trained alongside Cursor for coding and agentic work. 500K context, always-on reasoning, live X knowledge, at a competitive price. OpenAI's previous flagship. AA Intelligence Index v4.1 of 54.8 — a strong all-round frontier model, now succeeded by the GPT-5.6 family. 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 GPT-5.5?
- See the pricing rows above for live per-token or per-generation costs. TryAI bills both from one pay-as-you-go balance.