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Grok 4.6: price, performance and context
Proprietary Grok 4.6 by xAI costs $2.00 per 1M input and $6.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 500K tokens in one request (≈ 1,500 pages of text) and scores 44.3 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 15 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 2 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:46 UTC · x-ai/grok-4.6
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Key facts
- Licence
- Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
- Input / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $6.00
- Context window
- 500K tokens
- Max. output
- 450K tokens
- Performance index
- 44.3 points · rank 15 of 212
- Coding index
- 76.8 points · rank 5 of 119
- Agentic index
- 53 points · rank 6 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $3.50 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Aug 12, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files
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What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.004 | 2,800 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.003 | 3,400 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.01 | 1,000 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.017 | 590 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.212 | 47 |
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