Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5
Strong, current, and unusually willing to answer the question you actually asked.
Updated
The read
Grok 4.5 competes properly at the frontier now rather than on personality alone. It reasons well, it is quick for its weight, and it is noticeably less prone than its rivals to refusing a reasonable request or hedging an answer into uselessness. The trade is a smaller tooling ecosystem, a shorter track record in production, and a company whose priorities move fast.
Where it shines
- Answers directly instead of hedging, which is rarer than it should be
- Fast for a model at this quality level
- Live access to public posts, which no rival ships natively
Worth knowing first
- Smaller ecosystem of adapters, evals and community tooling
- Shorter production track record than the models it now matches
Index score
85.0
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 09 of 53
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Frontier
- Output
- Text, code and images in, text out
- Pricing
- Paid only
- Best for
- Work where over-cautious refusals are the real cost
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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