[mchusma]

Yeah, this is most directly comparable to xAI Grok 4.5. In both cases, directionally "opus level intelligence for haiku prices" which is a really big deal for application developers who want to include models like this in their applications. I have been testing switching out haiku and sonnet for Grok 4.5, and may give this a try too (it is quite a bit cheaper, particularly for cached).

[Aurornis]

> Yeah, this is most directly comparable to xAI Grok 4.5.

Grok 4.5 has a relatively high $0.50 per 1M cached input token rate, compared to $0.15 on this model.

Grok 4.5 cached input costs the same as Opus 4.8 cached input, which is going to make it a lot more expensive to use for multi-turn coding than many would assume from the $2/$6 headline numbers they led with.

[SyneRyder]

> ... make it a lot more expensive to use for multi-turn coding than many would assume from the $2/$6 headline numbers they led with.

There's a further sting in the tail, Grok 4.5 is only $2/$6 for the first 200k of context. Go above that, and the pricing is $6 / $12 - and you're still capped at only 500k context anyway.

Here's the xAI pricing on OpenRouter:

https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-4.5?endpoint=0e927811-b1a8-4...