Grok 4.5 output pricing matches GPT-5.6 Luna
xAI's flagship Grok 4.5 model matches OpenAI's budget-friendly GPT-5.6 Luna model in output token pricing, set at $6 per million tokens. While Grok 4.5's input pricing is slightly higher at $2 per million tokens compared to Luna's $1 per million tokens, the equal output pricing makes Grok 4.5 highly competitive for output-heavy agentic and generation workloads.
Flagship capabilities at budget pricing will accelerate the commoditization of LLM tokens and pressure OpenAI to lower flagship tier pricing.
* xAI is aggressively subsidizing its flagship model's output pricing to match OpenAI's low-end model tier.
* The higher input cost ($2 vs $1) means Luna remains more cost-effective for long-context retrieval, but Grok 4.5 is extremely competitive for content generation.
* This price parity shifts the battle from pure cost efficiency to the intelligence-to-cost ratio for developer workloads.
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2026-07-10
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