Grok 4.6 API Pricing
xAI · Mid-tier · Proprietary · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
- 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: 1461 (as of 2026-09-02)
- 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
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0060 | $0.0047 | $465 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0088 | $0.0067 | $670 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.027 | $0.026 | $2.6K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.016 | $0.015 | $1.5K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.018 | $0.016 | $1.6K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0066 | $0.0059 | $593 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0082 | $0.0079 | $790 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.030 | $0.024 | $2.4K |
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 2026-09-11 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| xAI (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| Amazon Bedrock | $2.20 | $6.60 |
Models comparable to Grok 4.6
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) — $0.95 in / $4.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1461
- Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — $2.00 in / $10.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1462
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — $0.30 in / $2.50 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1457
- GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $12.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1466
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.
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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