Grok 4.6
by xAIChat
xAI's frontier model for long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and visual projects
- Context
- 500K tokens
- Max output
- 500,000 tokens
- Parameters
- 1.5T total
- Released
- 2026-08-12
- Weights
- Closed
xai/grok-4-6 · also seen as x-ai/grok-4.6, global.xai.grok-4.6, us.xai.grok-4.6, spacexai/grok-4.6, +8 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-08-12
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 500,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 500,000
- Providers
- 14 + 22 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 156.3 ± 2.1 against price
- Direct price range
- $2.00–$2.50 in · $6.00–$7.50 out per 1M tokens · across all 14 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-08-18
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2026-02-01
- Parameters
- 1.5T total
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web search
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M tokens at xAI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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| Mixtral 8x22B InstructMistral AI | $2.67 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 65.5K | +0% |
| Pixtral LargeMistral AI | $2.67 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 128K | +0% |
| Fugu MaxSakana AI | $2.67 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M | +0% |
| Grok LatestxAI | $2.67 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | +0% |
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