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Grok 4.5 vs Sf Kimi K2 Thinking

Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Grok 4.5
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Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Grok 4.5
Sf Kimi K2 Thinking
Input /M
$2
$0.548
Output /M
$6
$2.192
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
500,000
256,000
Max output
500,000
0
Time to First Token
1.3 s
1.6 s
Throughput
17.2 tok/s
42.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
July 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
grok-4.5sf-kimi-k2-thinking
1360142014801540
Overall
14181465
Coding
14671514
Math
14161472
Hard prompts
14371488
Instruction following
13901461
Multi-turn
14041473
Creative writing
13821452
Longer query
14031480
Chinese
14541504
English
14231473

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Sf Kimi K2 Thinking
$65.76 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Grok 4.5, Sf Kimi K2 Thinking?

Sf Kimi K2 Thinking: $2.192/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.5: 1514; Sf Kimi K2 Thinking: 1467 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Grok 4.5: 1.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking accepts 256,000 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Sf Kimi K2 Thinking at 42.4 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 17.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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