Head to head
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 Xai | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $2.00 | $5.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $6.00 | $25.00 |
| Context window | 500K | 1.0M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| WM Score | 85 | 84 |
| Benchmark quality | 86.1 | 82.5 |
| Hosts serving it | 1 | 5 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 52 | 39 |
| Latency (ms) | 900 | 1469 |
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Which should you pick?
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 costs less per million input tokens — about 2.5× cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 scores higher on measured quality. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.