Comparison · prices as of 2026-07-04
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok 4
On price alone, Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) runs about 67% cheaper than Grok 4 for a typical chat workload (2K input + 500 output tokens, 1,000 requests/day). Whether that's the right trade depends on the capability gap — pricing below, verify quality on your own evals.
| Spec | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Input / MTok | $1 | $3 |
| Output / MTok | $5 | $15 |
| Context window | 200K | 256K |
| Max output | 64K | 64K |
| Class | fast | frontier |
| Reference workload / month | $135.00 | $405.00 |
Sources: Anthropic pricing · xAI pricing. Run your own numbers in the cost calculator.