13 Jul 2026
Grok 4.5 Is Cheap Enough That the Benchmark Gap Might Not Matter
(01)Grok 4.5 changes the model-routing question: when does a cheaper near-frontier model beat the benchmark leader on cost per accepted task?
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Grok 4.5 changes the model-routing question: when does a cheaper near-frontier model beat the benchmark leader on cost per accepted task?
GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4.5 both landed cheaper than Fable 5 in 48 hours. What the benchmark flip means for your coding-agent stack—and why cost-per-completed-task, not token price, decides the switch.