vs
0:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 2 scored). Price/speed category wins do not decide overall. Tied overall.
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Cursor Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.5 are closely matched on the overlapping metrics we have.
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Cursor Grok 4.5
- $3.50
- Grok 4.5
- $3.50
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Cursor
xAI
Family
Grok
Grok
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Jul 9, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Cursor
xAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
500K
500K
Max output
128K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$2
Output $/1M
$6
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$3
Speed
tok/s
95
100
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.35
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
93.1
Humanity's Last Exam
—
42.7
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
51.6
AA-LCR v1.1
—
79.3
CritPt
—
15.4
MMMU-Pro
—
80.4
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
81.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
15.7
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
55.0
CursorBench
66.7
—
SWE-Rebench
—
63.8
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,555
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
12.4
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,468
| Metric | Cursor Grok 4.5 | Grok 4.5 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Cursor | xAI | — |
| Family | Grok | Grok | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Cursor | xAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 500K | 500K | tie |
| Max output | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $2 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $6 | $6 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $3 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | 100 | B +5.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.35 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 93.1 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 42.7 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 51.6 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 79.3 | — |
| CritPt | — | 15.4 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 80.4 | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 81.6 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | 15.7 | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 55.0 | — |
| CursorBench | 66.7 | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 63.8 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,555 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | 12.4 | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,468 | — |
Cursor Grok 4.5
- Context
- 500K / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cursor's flagship - jointly trained with SpaceXAI on Cursor agent data; effort levels (low/medium/high) for hard long-running work. Distinct from the public xAI Grok 4.5 API SKU.
Grok 4.5
- Context
- 500K / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
xAI/SpaceXAI public API flagship (July 2026) - Cursor-trained coding focus at $2/$6. For the Cursor IDE jointly-trained SKU and Fast tier, see Cursor Grok 4.5.
Benchmark charts
Winner bars are emphasized. Per-benchmark deltas sit above each chart.
These two models have no overlapping published benchmarks in our dataset. Compare specs and pricing instead.