Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Grok 4.5 xai/grok-4.5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash google/gemini-3.6-flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Family | Grok 4 | Gemini 3 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 500,000 tok | 1,048,576 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 65,536 tok |
| Released | 2026-07-21 | 2026-07-21 |
| Input price | $1.00 /1M | $1.50 /1M |
| Output price | $1.00 /1M | $7.50 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
xAI's Grok 4.5, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling, structured outputs, and configurable reasoning effort (low, medium, high).
Gemini 3.6 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost, excelling at code generation, agentic execution, and spatial reasoning.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Grok 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.5",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Gemini 3.6 Flash — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemini-3.6-flash",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)