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Grok 4.6

xAI text model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work that preceded Grok 4.7. Text and image input, text output, 500K-token context and reasoning effort from low to xhigh; $2/$6 per 1M input/output tokens below 200K prompt tokens.

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Key specs

Provider
xAI
Family
Grok 4
API identifier
grok-4.6
Availability
Available
Release date
2026-08-12
License
Proprietary
Context window
500,000 tokens
API access
Yes
Consumer app
Unknown

Capabilities

Inputs

  • Text input Yes
  • Image input Yes JPG/JPEG or PNG, max 20 MiB per image, no limit on image count (models page)
  • Audio input No Model page lists modalities as text and image input, text output
  • Video input No Model page lists modalities as text and image input, text output
  • File input Partial Documents (PDF, text, CSV, JSON, code, etc., max 512 MB per file) can be attached; the API then runs the server-side attachment_search tool over them (billed per invocation). The Files docs list this model among the agentic tool-calling models that file attachments require.

Outputs

  • Text output Yes
  • Image output No Text-only output per model page
  • Audio output No Text-only output per model page

Features

  • Reasoning Native Reasoning cannot be disabled; effort low/medium/high (default)/xhigh
  • Tool calling Yes
  • Web search Yes Server-side web_search tool ($5 per 1K calls). Not named on the model page; the Files docs list this model among the models that support agentic (server-side) tool calling.

"Unknown" means we have not verified this capability yet; it does not mean the model lacks it.

DimensionTierPriceSinceVerifiedSource
Input tokens base $2.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing US regional endpoint (us.api.x.ai) billed at 1.1x; Priority Processing at 2x (pricing page).
≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens) $4.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing Long-context rate: once a request's prompt reaches 200K tokens, all tokens in the request are billed at this rate (pricing page).
Cached input tokens base $0.50 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing
≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens) $1.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing Long-context rate: once a request's prompt reaches 200K tokens, all tokens in the request are billed at this rate (pricing page).
Output tokens base $6.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing
≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens) $12.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 API Pricing Long-context rate: once a request's prompt reaches 200K tokens, all tokens in the request are billed at this rate (pricing page).
Batch input tokens base $1.60 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 API Pricing Batch API: 20% off standard rates for this model (pricing page and model page); the discount also applies to cached and reasoning tokens. Model page: Batch API supported in us-east-1 and us-west-2.
≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens) $3.20 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 API Pricing Batch API: 20% off standard rates for this model (pricing page and model page); the discount also applies to cached and reasoning tokens. Model page: Batch API supported in us-east-1 and us-west-2. Long-context rate.
Batch output tokens base $4.80 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 API Pricing Batch API: 20% off standard rates for this model (pricing page and model page); the discount also applies to cached and reasoning tokens. Model page: Batch API supported in us-east-1 and us-west-2.
≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens) $9.60 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 API Pricing Batch API: 20% off standard rates for this model (pricing page and model page); the discount also applies to cached and reasoning tokens. Model page: Batch API supported in us-east-1 and us-west-2. Long-context rate.

Prices are shown in the currency the provider publishes; we never convert currencies.

Price history (10 entries)
DimensionTierPriceFromUntil
Input tokensbase$2.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Input tokens≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens)$4.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cached input tokensbase$0.50 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cached input tokens≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens)$1.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Output tokensbase$6.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Output tokens≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens)$12.00 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Batch input tokensbase$1.60 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25current
Batch input tokens≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens)$3.20 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25current
Batch output tokensbase$4.80 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25current
Batch output tokens≥ 200K prompt tokens (≥ 200K input tokens)$9.60 per 1M tokens 2026-10-25current

Benchmarks

BenchmarkSettingScoreReported byMeasuredVerifiedSource
DeepSWE v1.1 % resolved (pass@1), higher is better v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent 65 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent harness 65.9 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Model Card: Grok 4.6 (Revision 2026-08-17)
v1.1; low effort; mini-swe-agent 42 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
v1.1; medium effort; mini-swe-agent 67 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
v1.1; xhigh effort; mini-swe-agent 67 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
v1.1; xhigh effort; mini-swe-agent harness 67 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Model Card: Grok 4.6 (Revision 2026-08-17)
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) accuracy %, higher is better Tiers 1-3 v2; xhigh effort; Epoch-administered 66 % Third party — 2026-10-25 FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
GDPval-AA v2.1 Elo, higher is better GDPval, version not stated; high effort 1,605 Elo Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Introducing Grok 4.7
v2.1; high effort 1,618 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
v2.1; low effort 1,409 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
v2.1; medium effort 1,613 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
v2.1; xhigh effort 1,647 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 % tasks resolved, higher is better high effort 20.3 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Model Card: Grok 4.7 (Revision 2026-09-21)
high effort; Grok Build harness 20.3 % Third party — 2026-10-25 Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (tbench.ai)
Text Arena Arena score, higher is better Overall; style control on; high effort 1,456 Third party 2026-10-23 2026-10-25 Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
DeepSWE v1.1 caveats:

The official leaderboard uses mini-swe-agent for all models and shows whole-number percentages with margins of about ±1 to ±6 points. Providers often report scores from their own scaffolds or effort settings; DeepSeek reports 65.5% to 74.2% for the same model depending on the scaffold. DeepSWE v1 scores are not comparable with v1.1. With only 113 tasks, small differences are within noise.

FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) caveats:

FrontierMath was developed with funding from OpenAI, which has exclusive access to a subset of the problems. Scores from v1 and from Tier 4 (a separate 43-problem expansion set) are not comparable with Tiers 1-3 (v2). The best models score about 94%, so the benchmark separates mid-size models better than it separates frontier models. Epoch's numbers come from its own harness (Python tool, 1M-token limit), which can differ from providers' internal setups. Margins are about ±1.4 to ±2.6 points.

GDPval-AA v2.1 caveats:

Elo is a relative rating: values change as models are added and the scale is re-anchored, so always store the date a rating was read. For example, Anthropic's launch page gives 1846 for Claude Opus 5.5, while the leaderboard on 2026-10-12 shows 1866 (Max, Default Fallback). Earlier versions (Google cites "GDPVal-AA v2") are not comparable. Judging is done by an LLM, not by human experts. Anthropic models are listed with "Default Fallback", meaning refused steps are routed to a fallback model. AA-Briefcase and GDP.pdf are separate evaluations.

Terminal-Bench 4.0 caveats:

Scores depend heavily on the agent harness (for example Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build or mini-SWE-agent) and on the reasoning effort, so the same model appears several times on the leaderboard. Leaderboard rows are often submitted by the organisation that builds the agent. Providers' own runs can differ from the leaderboard: Anthropic reports 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort, while the leaderboard lists 64.8% ± 3.1%. Versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 and Artificial Analysis' "Terminal-Bench Hard" use different task sets and are not comparable with 4.0. Margins are about ±3 points.

Text Arena caveats:

Scores measure voter preference, which can be influenced by answer style and length. The leaderboard offers a style-control adjustment, so record which view was used. Scores shift with every update, so a value is only meaningful together with its leaderboard date. Entries marked "Preliminary" or with few votes have wide confidence intervals. The same model can appear several times with different reasoning-effort suffixes (for example -high or -max). Category views (Coding, Math, Creative Writing and others) are different rankings from Overall.

One row per result, without rank numbers: each result was measured under its own setting (effort level, harness, tools, test version), as stated by the source, and scores compare only within the same setting. Self-reported results come from the provider and have not been reproduced independently.

Rankings

Derived from our published ranking snapshots; each ranking explains its criteria and weights.

Compare Grok 4.6

Guides

About Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 was released on August 12, 2026 and, according to xAI's announcement, builds on Grok 4.5 with a focus on long-running agents and interactive and visual work. It always reasons, with effort configurable as low, medium, high (default) or xhigh. Its model card gives a pretraining data cutoff of January 2026 and states that xAI planned to add it to its consumer apps at a later date.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Four configurable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, xhigh)
  • 500K-token context window with text and image input
  • Function calling and structured outputs supported
  • Batch API supported at 20% off standard rates
  • Also served on the US regional endpoint (1.1x token rates)

Weaknesses

  • 500K-token context window, half the 1M of grok-4.3 and the grok-4.20 models
  • Higher token prices than grok-4.3 and grok-4.20 ($2.00/$6.00 vs $1.25/$2.50 per 1M input/output tokens)

Sources

  1. Grok 4.6
  2. Release Notes
  3. Model Card: Grok 4.6 (Revision 2026-08-17)
  4. Files Overview
  5. Reasoning
  6. API Pricing
  7. Terminal-Bench
  8. Model Card: Grok 4.7 (Revision 2026-09-21)
  9. DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
  10. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
  11. GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
  12. Introducing Grok 4.7
  13. Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
  14. Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (tbench.ai)

Last verified Page updated 2026-10-27