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xAI's Grok 4.5 tops AutomationBench and costs 80% less per agentic task than Opus 4.8, but neutral coding benchmarks and a doubled hallucination rate complicate the story.
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xAI's Grok 4.5 tops AutomationBench and costs 80% less per agentic task than Opus 4.8, but neutral coding benchmarks and a doubled hallucination rate complicate the story.

Grok 4.5 is xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 MoE model, publicly launched July 8 at $2/M input - cheap, fast, and token-efficient, though neutral harness benchmarks put it well behind Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 on coding.

Grok 4.5 goes public with real benchmarks: behind Fable 5 on coding evals, but a 4.2x token efficiency gap that changes the cost math for high-volume pipelines.

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