xAI's Grok 4 Fast Tops Search Leaderboard While Slashing AI Costs by 47x
Summary
xAI's new Grok 4 Fast AI model rockets to the top of search leaderboards while slashing operational costs by 47 times compared to competitors like GPT-5 and Claude, offering real-time web and X search capabilities at dramatically reduced pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens.
Key Points
- xAI releases Grok 4 Fast, a new AI model that uses 40% fewer tokens while maintaining similar accuracy and costs up to 47 times less to run than competing models like GPT-5 or Claude
- The model can search the web and X in real-time for live information and takes the #1 spot on LMArena.ai's Search leaderboard, surpassing OpenAI's o3-search and Google's Gemini 2.5-pro-grounding
- Grok 4 Fast launches with pricing at $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, with free users gaining unrestricted access through the Grok app and website