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Grok 4.6

XAI released Grok 4.6, a proprietary frontier model built with Cursor, featuring 500K context, a knowledge cutoff of Feb 2026, and text and image input with text output. Priced at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (cached input $0.50 per 1M) for prompts under 200K tokens, it scored 82.5% accuracy on the Agents on Rails benchmark (Aug 2026, Le Mans round) across 63 runs, tying with ox-alpha and trailing the Opus 5, Kimi K3, and Fable 5 cluster, while achieving the best API recall of 33.3% among models with a median time of 10m 50s.

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Grok 4.6
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premierProprietary frontier model from xAI (SpaceXAI), built with Cursor. ~1.5T-scale family, an extension of Grok 4.5 focused on long-running agents and ambitious interactive/visual work. 500K context, knowledge cutoff Feb 2026, text + image in, text out, reasoning effort low/medium/high/xhigh.

Pricing: $2/1M input, $6/1M output (cached input $0.50/1M) below 200k prompt tokens; double above. Available in Grok Build, Cursor, the API, and partner gateways.

Agents on Rails benchmark (Aug 2026, Le Mans round). 82.5% accuracy on 63 runs - tied with ox-alpha, behind only the Opus 5 / Kimi K3 / Fable 5 top cluster. API recall 33.3%, the best of any model that also kept a middling time (10m 50s median). At $0.778 mean cost it is strong accuracy-per-dollar.

  • 500k
  • proprietary
  • 🇺🇸 USA
  • Aug 2026

Scores #

Score per dollar #

46 pts per $/M input

general_score (92) divided by cheapest input price

($2.00/M).
Higher is better value. [See live pricing](/models/grok-4-6/pricing).

Or run it in the cloud #

Live per-provider pricing, throughput and uptime - refreshed about 1 hour ago via OpenRouter. Click a column to sort.

| Provider | Type | Input $/M | Output $/M | Cache $/M | Tok/s | Latency | Uptime | Value |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API | 2.00 | 6.00 | - | - | - | - | cheapest |

Default order: throughput among 95%+ uptime providers, then latency; subscriptions last. Sort by any column. Subscription rows show $/mo in the Value column - per-token columns are "-". Affiliate links are marked sponsored / nofollow. Confirm current pricing on the provider's site before committing.

Detailed API pricing page + JSON endpoint →

Inference cost over time #

Data accumulates from the first daily sync - longer ranges populate over time. Prices come from OpenRouter snapshots, not a historical API.

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