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Grok 4.6
xai·xai/grok-4.6·GA·Closed·grok series·NEW
xAI's frontier model for long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and visual projects
At a glance
Official price$2.00 / $6.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.50 · xAI
Lowest paid$1.50 / $4.50
Merge Gateway Gateway · 1.5× spread
Context500,000
Output limit500,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImagePDF
Knowledge cutoff2026-02-01
Released / updated2026-08-12 / 2026-08-12
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier high
Intelligence60.9
Value27
Coding76.8
Agentic58.7
Output speed56 tok/s
TTFT36.89 s
Cost per task$0.8367
Value formulaIQ 60.9 ÷ min blended $2.250 = 27
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 18 providers18 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $1.50 | $4.50 | $0.375 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $1.80 tiered >200K: $3.60 | $5.40 | $0.45 | $1.80 | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $2.00 tiered >200K: $4.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $2.00 tiered >200K: $4.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | $2.00 | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| xAIOfficial | First-party | $2.00 tiered >200K: $4.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| Perplexity Agent | Gateway | $2.00 tiered >200K: $4.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 65,536 | |
| OpenCode Zen | Gateway | $2.00 tiered >200K: $4.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | — | 500,000 | 500,000 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Merge Gateway$390.00
2Requesty$468.00
3NanoGPT$520.00
4OpenRouter$520.00
5CrossModel$520.00
6xAI · Official$520.00
Switch to Merge Gateway to save $130.00/mo (25%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = noneeffort = maxbudget_tokens
2 / 18 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $2.00Output list $6.00Min blended $2.25
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.