Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call
xai/grok-4.5— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
pip install openaiAI_GATEWAY_API_KEYxai/grok-4.5creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.
Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $2.00 |
| Output tokens | $6.00 |
| Query | $5.00 |
Capabilities
About Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 is xAI/SpaceXAI's July 2026 flagship model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It is publicly available as grok-4.5 through the xAI API and Grok Build, supports configurable low/medium/high reasoning, function calling, web search, X search, code execution, prompt caching, and a 500k-token context window. xAI tiered pricing applies at a 200K prompt threshold: <=200K prompts at $2.00/$0.50 cached/$6.00 per 1M tokens (input/cached input/output), and prompts above 200K at $4.00/$1.00/$12.00; EU API-console availability was not yet live on launch day.