Grok 4.5 Cracks OpenRouter's Top 10 Closed Models: What the Token-Volume Milestone Actually Means
Polymarket reports Grok 4.5 has overtaken GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 in OpenRouter token volume, cracking the top 10 closed models. The milestone measures usage, not quality — but it lines up with a genuinely aggressive value proposition: $2/$6 per 1M tokens, roughly 2x token efficiency, 80 TPS, a SWE Marathon lead, and Cursor-co-trained coding performance. Here is what the signal means, what xAI’s benchmarks show, and what they do not.
