Grok 4.5 pricing
Grok 4.5, Mid-tier from inference.net, costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens.
Input$2.00per 1M tokens
Output$6.00per 1M tokens
Context window500Ktokens
TierMidinference.net
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | inference.net |
| Tier | Mid |
| Context window | 500K tokens |
| Max output | 500K tokens |
| Input price | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
| Cache read | $0.30 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text |
Note. Inference.net gateway price for Grok 4.5 (xAI), converted from the site's published per-token rate (costInputPerToken=0.000002, costOutputPerToken=0.000006 USD/token) to USD per 1M tokens: $2.0/1M input, $6.0/1M output, $0.3/1M cache read.
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $2.00 | $1.50 | $3.50 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $20.00 | $15.00 | $35.00 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $200.00 | $150.00 | $350.00 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Mid), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | OpenRouter | $0.037 | $0.17 | 97.7% cheaper blended |
| GPT-OSS 120B | Novita AI | $0.05 | $0.25 | 96.8% cheaper blended |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | DeepInfra | $0.10 | $0.32 | 94.9% cheaper blended |
| Nemotron 3 Super | OpenRouter | $0.085 | $0.40 | 94.7% cheaper blended |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Baseten | $0.13 | $0.26 | 94.4% cheaper blended |