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Grok 4.5

X.AI·

LLMsflagshipcloud

Overview

Coding- and agentic-focused flagship from xAI, trained alongside Cursor. Available in Grok Build, Cursor and the console at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens.

Capabilities and innovations

Agentic codingReasoning-first

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond92.93%independent
vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools)40.3%third party
HLE 40,3% no-tools, measured by Artificial Analysis (high effort, the highest setting Artificial Analysis runs for Grok 4.5).
SWE-bench Pro64.7%vendor
MMLU-Pro89.22%independent
vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Terminal-Bench 2.x67.79%independent
vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Terminal-Bench 3.015.7%independent
Terminal-Bench 3.0 15.7% (± 2.9, 95% CI), official leaderboard maintained by the Terminal-Bench team (Stanford / Harbor / Laude Institute), xhigh effort, agent harness: Cursor CLI (accessed 2026-09-23). Do not compare against the terminal_bench column: 3.0 is a harder generation on a different scale.
Terminal-Bench 4.012.4%independent
Terminal-Bench 4.0 12.4% (± 2.6, 95% CI), official leaderboard maintained by the Terminal-Bench team (Stanford / Harbor / Laude Institute), high effort, agent harness: Grok Build (accessed 2026-09-23). 4.0 is its own generation and not comparable with the 2.x or 3.0 fields.
MMMU-Pro80.4%third party
MMMU-Pro 80,4%, measured by Artificial Analysis (high effort).

API pricing

$2 per million input tokens, $6 per million output tokens (USD, provider list price, checked 2026-07-09)

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Data curated by AI Model Timeline. See the methodology for admission criteria, benchmark eras and source priority.