SPACEXAI Grok 4.5 is as Good as Anthropic Opus BUT One-quarter of the COST
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#76VYS)
Actual usage of SpaceXAI Grok 4.5. First person reports that there are programmers successfully replacing Opus and Sonnet in all of his systems today with Grok 4.5. Grok 4.5 worked great. Spending can drop 50-80%. $200-500 instead of $1000. Grok 4.5 is faster than Opus 4.8. Maybe 2 to 3 times faster. OpenAI GPT 5.6 ...