Analysis Summary
Grok Latest is an unbenchmarked xAI model with a 500,000 token context window, vision, tool use, and function calling. The product specification supports long-document assistants, multimodal analysis, research automation, and workflows that need external actions rather than text generation alone.
Its principal business limitation is evidence. No benchmark results are supplied for this exact variant, so capability cannot be assumed from the measured Grok 4.5 or from the feature list. Pricing is more attractive than the premium OpenAI tiers, but still high enough to require validation before broad deployment. It is suitable for a technical pilot with strong monitoring, while measured models remain safer for client-facing and autonomous production work.
Assessed September 7, 2026
Editorial notes
Grok Latest offers a 500K-token context, vision, tool use, and function calling at mid-premium pricing, but has no supplied benchmark data to verify its reasoning or coding performance.
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DFO Verdict
Grok Latest offers a 500K-token context, vision, tool use, and function calling at mid-premium pricing, but has no supplied benchmark data to verify its reasoning or coding performance.
How xAI: Grok Latest compares
Its 500K-token context window is larger than 75% of the models we list. At $1.60 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 19% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.60 | $0.001600 |
| Output | $4.80 | $0.004800 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Frequently asked questions about xAI: Grok Latest
How much does xAI: Grok Latest cost?
xAI: Grok Latest costs $1.60 per million input tokens and $4.80 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of xAI: Grok Latest?
xAI: Grok Latest has a context window of 500,000 tokens (500K).
What can xAI: Grok Latest do?
xAI: Grok Latest supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created xAI: Grok Latest?
xAI: Grok Latest is developed by xAI and was released on July 8, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: September 21, 2026 8:38 pm