Grok 4.5 is not just another benchmark launch. I ran the pricing math across coding agents, cache hits, tool calls, and EU access caveats.
Grok 4.5 landed, and the takes came fast:
"It beats every coding model."
"It is just a cheaper Opus."
"You can route it everywhere now."
Two of those are wrong. One is directionally useful but still too sloppy.
Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much
Grok 4.5 launches with aggressive pricing, undercutting Anthropic and OpenAI by over 60%
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, touts lower coding-task costs than AI rivals
The New Grok 4.5 Is Out. Elon Musk Says It Competes With Last Year's Claude Opus - Decrypt
Grok 4.5 tops SWE Marathon benchmark as xAI's coding model war heats up
xAI veröffentlicht Grok 4.5: Fast auf Frontier-Niveau, aber deutlich günstiger als die Konkurrenz
Elon Musk's Grok 4.5 launch intensifies AI arms race with implications for crypto-adjacent compute markets
SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI
Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost
SpaceXAI's newest AI model Grok 4.5 dramatically undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on price - SiliconANGLE
