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Grok 4.6 Pricing

xAI · x-ai-grok-4-6

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Input / 1M tokens

$2.00

Output / 1M tokens

$6.00

Context window

500k tokens

≈ 667 pages of text

Max output

450k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0048

1,000 requests / month$4.80/mo 10,000 requests / month$48.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$480.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Grok 4.6 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Handles 500k-token contexts effectively for long-document analysis and multi-turn reasoning; vision support enables document and image interpretation tasks.

The business tradeoff

Smaller ecosystem and fewer production integrations than major providers; output pricing at $6 per million tokens increases cost for high-volume generation workloads.

Cheaper from xAI

Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request Grok Build 0.1xAI$0.002/ typical request Grok 4.3 (batch)xAI$0.002/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request DeepSeek R1DeepSeek$0.0015/ typical request

Head-to-head

Grok 4.6 vs Claude Fable 5 →Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3.7 Plus →Grok 4.6 vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Aug 12, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.