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Grok 4.5 vs PaLM 2-S

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Grok 4.5 · PaLM 2-S are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Grok 4.5
#88 by perf·#15 by attention
UNDERRATED
PaLM 2-S
#53 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Grok 4.5
13.6 pts/$
$4.00/M
PaLM 2-S
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Unknown
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 4.5$2.00$6.00500K tokens (~250 books)$30.00
PaLM 2-S————