Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
xAI · grok-4.5 official price: input 2, output 6 USD per million tokens (xAI, observed 2026-10-24). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 2, output 6 USD per million tokens. 200 sites have comparable prices; 610 sites list this model. Conditions: Context tier: PROMPT_LT_200K · long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rate · Context tier: OPENROUTER_DEFAULT_WHEN_NO_OVERRIDE · Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 3 · median 4.5 · highest 6 · 2 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 3 · median 3 · highest 3 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Official price
Provider
Tariff
Input
Output
Cache read
Cache write
Unit
Observed
Conditions and source
xAI
Standard
2
6
0.3
—
USD / 1M tokens
Context tier: PROMPT_LT_200K · long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rateFull price conditions
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"sourceUnit": null,
"sourceAmounts": null,
"conditions": [],
"contextTier": "PROMPT_LT_200K",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rate"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Context tier: PROMPT_GE_200K · long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rateFull price conditions
{
"sourceUnit": null,
"sourceAmounts": null,
"conditions": [],
"contextTier": "PROMPT_GE_200K",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rate"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
Provider
Tariff
Input
Output
Cache read
Cache write
Unit
Observed
Conditions and source
vs official
OpenRouter · Aggregator
Standard
2
6
0.3
—
USD / 1M tokens
Context tier: OPENROUTER_DEFAULT_WHEN_NO_OVERRIDE · Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)Full price conditions
Context tier: OPENROUTER_MIN_PROMPT_TOKENS_200000 · OpenRouter override for prompts from 200000 tokens (boundary inclusivity not stated) · Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)Full price conditions
{
"sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
"sourceAmounts": {
"cacheRead": "0.0000006",
"input": "0.000004",
"output": "0.000012"
},
"conditions": [
"OpenRouter override for prompts from 200000 tokens (boundary inclusivity not stated)"
],
"contextTier": "OPENROUTER_MIN_PROMPT_TOKENS_200000",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Earlier price observations and their original conditions
Official price
Provider
Tariff
Input
Output
Cache read
Cache write
Unit
Observed
Conditions and source
xAI
Standard
2
6
0.3
—
USD / 1M tokens
Context tier: PROMPT_LT_200K · long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rateFull price conditions
{
"sourceUnit": null,
"sourceAmounts": null,
"conditions": [],
"contextTier": "PROMPT_LT_200K",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rate"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Context tier: PROMPT_GE_200K · long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rateFull price conditions
{
"sourceUnit": null,
"sourceAmounts": null,
"conditions": [],
"contextTier": "PROMPT_GE_200K",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"long context pricing: a prompt reaching 200k tokens bills all tokens of the request at the higher rate"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Context tier: OPENROUTER_MIN_PROMPT_TOKENS_200000 · OpenRouter override for prompts from 200000 tokens (boundary inclusivity not stated) · Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)Full price conditions
{
"sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
"sourceAmounts": {
"cacheRead": "0.0000006",
"input": "0.000004",
"output": "0.000012"
},
"conditions": [
"OpenRouter override for prompts from 200000 tokens (boundary inclusivity not stated)"
],
"contextTier": "OPENROUTER_MIN_PROMPT_TOKENS_200000",
"processingMode": null,
"conditionNotes": [
"Additional web_search price 0.005 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)"
],
"effectiveFrom": null,
"effectiveUntil": null
}
Unit: CNY credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
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All per-token prices: 93,968 prices from 854 sites (about 751 companies). 84,786 are ranked, from 838 sites (about 736 companies); 9,182 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-24.
This model has 1131 recorded prices; 349 can be compared directly (330 ranked, 19 listed separately). Not comparable yet: tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 400, price not parsed yet 187, new price under review; showing the previous one 81, billed per request or another unit 58, ratio looks unset 19, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 16, display unit not confirmed 14
4 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.