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Grok 4.20: price, performance and context

Proprietary Grok 4.20 by xAI costs $1.25 per 1M input and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 2M tokens in one request (≈ 6,000 pages of text) and scores 25.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 64 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · x-ai/grok-4.20

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
2M tokens
Max. output
1.8M tokens
Performance index
25.7 points · rank 64 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$1.875 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2025
In the catalog since
Mar 31, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0026,200
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0017,600
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0051,900
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0091,100
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.1376

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