> Yeah, this is most directly comparable to xAI Grok 4.5.
Grok 4.5 has a relatively high $0.50 per 1M cached input token rate, compared to $0.15 on this model.
Grok 4.5 cached input costs the same as Opus 4.8 cached input, which is going to make it a lot more expensive to use for multi-turn coding than many would assume from the $2/$6 headline numbers they led with.
> ... make it a lot more expensive to use for multi-turn coding than many would assume from the $2/$6 headline numbers they led with.
There's a further sting in the tail, Grok 4.5 is only $2/$6 for the first 200k of context. Go above that, and the pricing is $6 / $12 - and you're still capped at only 500k context anyway.
Here's the xAI pricing on OpenRouter:
https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-4.5?endpoint=0e927811-b1a8-4...