vs
0:0
overall capability wins (1 ties across 1 scored). Price/speed category wins do not decide overall. Tied overall.
Verdict
Cursor Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.7 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 4.7
- $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
Sep 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Cursor
xAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
500K
500K
Max output
128K
-
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$2
Output $/1M
$6
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$3
Speed
tok/s
95
-
TTFT (s)
0.4
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
43.0
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
77.0
CritPt
—
18.0
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
57.0
CursorBench
66.7
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
26.0
CursorBench 4.0
—
46.3
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Cursor Grok 4.5 | Grok 4.7 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Cursor | xAI | — |
| Family | Grok | Grok | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 9, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Cursor | xAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 500K | 500K | tie |
| Max output | 128K | - | — |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $2 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $6 | $6 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $3 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 43.0 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 77.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 18.0 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 57.0 | — |
| CursorBench | 66.7 | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | 26.0 | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | 46.3 | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
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 4.7
- Context
- 500K
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
SpaceXAI's September 2026 frontier model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Its API base rates are $2/$6 per 1M input/output tokens, with higher rates above 200K context; the context window is 500K. Recorded Artificial Analysis evaluations use xhigh reasoning effort.
Benchmark charts
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