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🇺🇸 United States agentsReleased July 2026

Grok 4.5

xAI
Verdict

A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.

Overview

Grok 4.5 is xAI's agent-oriented model, built to chain complex tasks such as coding and automation, with a 500,000-token context window and competitive API pricing ($2/$6 per million tokens). Its agentic focus and speed make it a plausible fit for developer tooling and workflow automation, but it remains a closed, proprietary model with no open weights or on-premise option — data runs through xAI's US infrastructure, a real consideration for European buyers with data-residency constraints.

Skill profile

Arena Elo1465

Not disclosed

Three independent measures

What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.

Preference
Which answer do people prefer, blind?
1465Elo
Sensitive to answer style and length.
Capability
What can the model do on measured tasks?
38.8/ 100
Aggregates ten evaluations run by Artificial Analysis.
Adoption
What does the market actually use?
Not measured yet
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings). CC BY 4.0
OpenRouter traffic only: measures adoption, not quality, and misses direct use of vendor APIs.

Strengths

  • World-class on Arena
  • Very long context

Limitations

  • No documented EU residency

Who is it for

A good fit if…
    Skip it if…
    • you handle sensitive data with no EU option

    Ideal use cases

    • Agentic workflow automation
    • Software development agents
    • Long-document analysis
    • Cost-sensitive API integration

    Access & availability

    Paid API per token

    Key specifications

    Context
    500K
    Input price
    $2.00/M
    Output price
    $6.00/M
    Speed
    —
    Price verified Nov 4, 2026·Official source ↗Benchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    $60.0 / month
    ≈ 55.2 € · 20.0 M tokens
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    64/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    19/20 criteria documented · 95 %

    Data72
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty10
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise83
    5/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria▾
    Data
    EU data residency60
    No transfer outside EU
    No training on your data
    Configurable retention
    Zero Data Retention
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offered
    European vendorcountry: US30
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitments
    Subprocessor list published
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAML
    SCIM provisioning
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Vendor private endpointnot documented
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
    Full ranking and methodology

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    nAIvigate Trust Index · Grok 4.5
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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyOn request
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
    Transfer outside the EUYes
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionYes
    Zero Data RetentionYes
    Self-hostableNo
    Declared hostingUS

    Quality of this card’s data

    75/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    5/6 documented · 3/6 primary sources

    API pricingofficial
    Context windownAIvigate assessment
    Arena EloLMArena, human preferenceindependent
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
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    Architecture
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    Size
    —
    Cutoff date
    —
    Inputs
    —
    Outputs
    —
    License
    proprietary
    Hosting
    US
    Hallucination score
    —
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    ≈ $0.0120
    1M in + 1M out
    ≈ $8.00
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo1465
    MMLU—
    GPQA—
    HumanEval—
    SWE-Bench—
    MATH—

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