xAI makes Grok 4.5 free across Cursor, CLI

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xAI makes Grok 4.5 free across Cursor, CLI

xAI has made Grok 4.5, its frontier-level coding model featuring a 500K token context window, temporarily free across Cursor editor tiers, Grok Build, and the Grok CLI. Featuring strong performance on SWE-bench Pro and Terminal Bench, the model aims to compete directly with leading code-focused AI tools.

// ANALYSIS

Offering free access to Grok 4.5 across popular IDEs and CLI environments is an aggressive developer acquisition move by xAI aimed at capturing market share from incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic.

* A 500K context window paired with top-tier benchmarks makes Grok 4.5 particularly compelling for repository-wide refactoring and complex debugging tasks.

* Multi-channel availability across Cursor, Grok Build, and terminal tooling dramatically lowers the friction for developers to test and adopt xAI's ecosystem.

* A limited-time free tier allows xAI to collect valuable real-world coding telemetry while embedding Grok 4.5 directly into daily developer workflows.

// TAGS

grok-4.5xaicursorai-codingdevtoolllmbenchmark

DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-07-22

PUBLISHED

1h ago

2026-07-22

RELEVANCE

9/ 10

AUTHOR

AICodeKing

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