Grok 4.5 vs Grok 4.7

$0.88 / task
Wins 4 of 5 benchmarks
$1.25 / task
Wins 1 of 5 benchmarks
Different efforts: high · low · Compare all at high
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam: Very hard expert questions across many fields, written to stump today’s models
Grok 4.542.7
Grok 4.739.2
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Grok 4.510.6
Grok 4.716.2
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Grok 4.557.9
Grok 4.756.7
Arena Text · creative writing Arena Text · creative writing: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Grok 4.51,452
Grok 4.7 · xhigh1,424
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Grok 4.580.4
Grok 4.778.2

Specs

SpecGrok 4.5Grok 4.7
Input, per 1M$2$2
Output, per 1M$6$6
Cost per task?$0.88$1.25
Speed, tok/s6380
Context500K500K
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartialPartial
Hear audio——
Watch video——
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code??
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Grok 4.5 → Grok 4.7
Reasoning cannot be disabled›

Reasoning cannot be disabled; choose low, medium, high or xhigh effort.

Penalties and stop return error›

presencePenalty, frequencyPenalty and stop cannot be used with reasoning models; requests containing them return an error.

Set prompt_cache_key›

Set prompt_cache_key or the Chat Completions x-grok-conv-id header to keep a conversation on the same server and improve cache hits.

Pass reasoning items back unchanged · Responses›

Responses always returns encrypted reasoning even without include; pass the reasoning items back unchanged in the next request.

10% premium · US regional endpoint›

The US regional endpoint keeps inference in the United States and adds a 10% token-price premium.

Grok 4.7 → Grok 4.5
Nothing known.