Grok 4.6 API Pricing
xAI · Mid-tier · Proprietary · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Grok 4.6 has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 69th cheapest of 108 Mid-tier models. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $2.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $6.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.50
- Context window: 500K
- Arena ELO: 1453 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: Direct API, Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Grok 4.6 market position
On blended price ($4.80 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 31% of Mid-tier models: 69th cheapest of 108, tied with 6 others. Across every category it is cheaper than 23% of priced text models in the catalogue: 211th cheapest of 281, tied with 6 others. Its Arena ELO of 1453 ranks 32nd of the 68 models that carry one, above 54% of them.
Grok 4.6 licence, size and capabilities
Grok 4.6 is recorded here as proprietary: access is through an API, priced by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 500K context window once costs $1.00 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $465 – $600 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $670 – $880 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $2.6K – $2.7K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $1.5K – $1.6K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $1.6K – $1.8K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $593 – $660 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $790 – $820 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $2.4K – $3.0K |
Grok 4.6 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: xAI at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens. The dearest, Amazon Bedrock, charges 1.1x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| xAI (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Amazon Bedrock | $2.20 | $6.60 |
Grok 4.6 price history
Grok 4.6 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Grok 4.6
- Next cheaper Mid-tier model: Palmyra X5 (Writer) at $4.38 blended, 9% less.
- Next more expensive: Aion 3.5 (aion-labs) at $5.10 blended, 6% more.
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Grok 4.6.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — $0.30 in / $2.50 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1456: 62% cheaper, 3 ELO points higher
- Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot) — $0.45 in / $2.25 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1450: 64% cheaper, 3 ELO points lower
- Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) — $0.65 in / $3.41 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1461: 46% cheaper, 8 ELO points higher
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — $2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1462: 58% more expensive, 9 ELO points higher
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI), 81% cheaper, 1 ELO point higher, out of 18 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Grok 4.5 (xAI), same blended price, 12 ELO points higher, out of 3 models in that price band.
Grok 4.6 head to head
Common questions about Grok 4.6 pricing
- How much does Grok 4.6 cost?
- Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Grok 4.6 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.50/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Grok 4.6 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Grok 4.6 costs about $600 at list prices.
- Has the price of Grok 4.6 changed?
- Grok 4.6 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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