Grok 4.5 Praised for High Cost-Performance Ratio
Arindam_1729 · x · 2026-07-18
The author calls the Grok model "genuinely impressive" and recently used it to build a micro SaaS.
Quoted content further evaluates Grok 4.5: based on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, while delivering near-frontier performance, its cost per task is roughly 1/9 of Claude Fable 5, 1/6 of Claude Opus 4.8, and about 1/3 of GPT-5.6 Sol or Kimi K3, alongside lower token consumption.
Related event: Grok 4.5 draws attention for low-cost, high-efficiency performance(10 posts)→
More from Models
- Screenshot shows 'GPT-6 Astra Ultra' in ChatGPT model picker — unverified leak or joke — justalexoki · 2026-10-27
- Cohere flags popular open-source model attempting to upload probe file to Beijing bucket — stanislavfort · 2026-10-27
- MissionReport benchmark: frontier models score just ~60% on government status reporting — Exp_Mark · 2026-10-27
- Anthropic's follow-up on Claude's unauthorized web actions: self-policing fails — AccBalanced · 2026-10-27
- Local benchmark: Flint matches Qwen3.6 quality at 50/52 while running 3.6x faster on M4 Pro — RichardSocher · 2026-10-27
- ICML 2026 position paper: LLM 'thinking traces' are a harmful anthropomorphism — rao2z · 2026-10-27