xAI

Grok 4.6

CTX500K

91Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$2/M

Output$6/M

xAI's frontier model for long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and visual projects

PaidProprietary978/1040

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Grok 4.6

xAI's frontier model for long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and visual projects

grok-4.6

Type: Text
Quality: 91 · Top 9% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 500,000 tokens
Max output: 500,000 tokens
Input price: $2.00 / 1M tokens
Output price: $6.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.50 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Aug 12, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: Feb 2026
Takes in: Text, Image, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 978/1040

Open xAI docs Quality 91 Where to run it 33 Evolution 4/5 Meet its creature Battle Qwen3.8 Max

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by xAI’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: docs.x.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Grok 4.6, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 9% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #27.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#27 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.156.3 index
LMArena Text#99 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,428 rating
Listed as grok-4.6-high
LMArena Text · Coding#79 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,465 rating
Listed as grok-4.6-high
LMArena Text · Math#130 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,416 rating
Listed as grok-4.6-high
LMArena Text · Creative writing#63 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,427 rating
Listed as grok-4.6-high
LMArena WebDev#25 of 144
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,617 rating
Listed as Grok 4.6 (High)
LMArena Vision#52 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,263 rating
Listed as grok-4.6-high

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

33 providers sell Grok 4.6 through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

Cheapest302.AI$2.00 in · $6.00 out
Free to try1 providerKenari
From the labxAI$2.00 in · $6.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`grok-4-6`	Free	Free	500K
302.AICheapest paid`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Abacus`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
AIHubMix`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Amazon Bedrock`global.xai.grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Azure`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	200K
Cloudflare AI Gateway`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
CommandCode`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
CrossModel`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`grok-4-6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K

Show 23 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Eden AI`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
GitHub Copilot`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Kilo Gateway`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
LLM Gateway`xai/grok-4-6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Merge Gateway`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
NanoGPT`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
NEAR AI Cloud`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Neon`grok-4-6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
OCI Generative AI`xai.grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Ofox`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
OpenCode`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
OpenRouter`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Opper`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
OrcaRouter`grok/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Perplexity Agent`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Prime Inference`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Requesty`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Tempr Gateway`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Vercel AI Gateway`spacexai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Vertex`xai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	524K
xAIOfficial`grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
ZenMux`x-ai/grok-4.6`	$2.00	$6.00	500K
Venice AI`grok-4-6`	$2.27	$6.80	500K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Where to run it

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