Processing 10,000 lines of code (~112,000 tokens) with Grok 2 costs $0.224 for codebase ingestion and $0.448 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 10,000 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 10,000 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
Grok 2 writes 10,000 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 2 (Current) | xai | $0.224 | $0.056 | $0.448 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | openai | $0.51 | $0.051 | $1.122 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | openai | $1.275 | $0.1275 | $2.805 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Standard | openai | $0.51 | $0.051 | $1.122 | 512,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | openai | $3.06 | $0.306 | $6.732 | 512,000 |
| o3-pro (Frontier Reasoning) | openai | $2.04 | $0.204 | $3.672 | 1,000,000 |
On average, code yields approximately 11.2 tokens per line in Grok 2 (tiktoken_cl100k tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 10,000 lines of code produces approximately 112,000 tokens.
Sending 10,000 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.448. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.28.
Grok 2 has a context window of 128,000 tokens. 10,000 lines of code consumes 87.50% of its total available context.