Model Details
Released
Aug 12, 2026
Context Length
500,000
Where is Grok-4.6 a perfect fit?
Grok 4.6 is xAI's latest frontier model, focused particularly on long-running agents, agentic coding, knowledge work, and interactive or visual applications. xAI says it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
- Long-running autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale software engineering and coding
- Complex debugging, refactoring, and application development
- Deep research and knowledge-work automation
- Multimodal analysis involving images and visual interfaces
- Interactive application and UI-building workflows
- Multi-step tool-calling and agentic workflows
- Enterprise applications requiring frontier-level reasoning at comparatively low API cost
- Long-running autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale software engineering and coding
- Complex debugging, refactoring, and application development
- Deep research and knowledge-work automation
- Multimodal analysis involving images and visual interfaces
- Interactive application and UI-building workflows
- Multi-step tool-calling and agentic workflows
- Enterprise applications requiring frontier-level reasoning at comparatively low API cost
Quick Model Estimate
Your Grok-4.6 Cost Estimate
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📤 Output (1000 × $6.000000)
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 Perplexity | Text | Standard | $2.0000 | $6.0000 | $0.5000 | Up to 200,000 tokens | → |
| Perplexity | Text | Standard | $4.0000 | $12.0000 | $1.0000 | 200,000+ tokens | → |
FAQs about Grok-4.6
How much does Grok-4.6 cost per 1M tokens?
Grok-4.6 costs between $2.00 and $4.00 per million input tokens, and between $6.00 and $12.00 per million output tokens.
What does a typical workload cost with Grok-4.6?
1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $7.00 with Grok-4.6 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.
Where can I use Grok-4.6?
Grok-4.6 is available through Perplexity, from $2.00 per million input tokens.
What is Grok-4.6's context window?
Grok-4.6 has a context window of 500,000 tokens.