Is Vercel AI Gateway Grok 4.5 deprecated?
No longer available. Vercel AI Gateway shut Grok 4.5 down on 2026-09-10 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Grok 4.5 takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Vercel AI Gateway's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- $2.00 / M tokens
- Output price
- $6.00 / M tokens
- Price band
- Standard
- Context window
- 500K tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- not published
- Model maker
- xAI
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
These figures come from Vercel AI Gateway's listing, not from the model maker's own price sheet. Treat them as the cost of routing through Vercel AI Gateway, not as an official tariff.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Vercel AI Gateway has not published the date this happened
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Vercel AI Gateway's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Grok 4.5
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Gemini 3 Flash Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$0.50 in · $3.00 out / M tokens 1M context
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Gemini 3.8 Flash Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$0.75 in · $3.75 out / M tokens 1M context
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Grok 4.6 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$2.00 in · $6.00 out / M tokens 500K context
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Claude Sonnet 5 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), close in price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$2.00 in · $10.00 out / M tokens 1M context
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Qwen-Plus (stable alias) Derived
Alternative from Alibaba Qwen, same tier (mid-tier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$0.40 in · $1.20 out / M tokens 1M context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- ai-gateway.vercel.sh https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models
- vercel.com https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/grok-4.5
- vercel.com https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Grok 4.5 deprecated?
- No longer available. Vercel AI Gateway shut Grok 4.5 down on 2026-09-10 — calls to it fail.
- When does Grok 4.5 shut down?
- Vercel AI Gateway has announced 2026-09-10 as the shutdown date for Grok 4.5.
- What does Grok 4.5 cost?
- $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens, as last verified on 2026-09-10.
- What can I use instead of Grok 4.5?
- Active alternatives include Vercel AI Gateway Gemini 3 Flash, Vercel AI Gateway Gemini 3.8 Flash, Vercel AI Gateway Grok 4.6.