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Grok 4.6 pricing and benchmarks

xAI’s flagship model for code and everything else, with agentic tool calling and configurable reasoning.

Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.50
per 1M tokens
Output
$6.00
per 1M tokens
Capability index
156.3
#7 of 16 tracked

How capable is Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 scores 156.3 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (confidence interval 154.8158.9), ranking #7 of the 16 rated models we track.

BenchmarkTestsScore
GPQA DiamondScience reasoning
92.0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)Advanced math
66.0%
SimpleQA VerifiedFactual accuracy
49.3%
ARC-AGI-2Abstract reasoning
67.1%
DeepSWECoding
67.5%
APEX-AgentsAgentic work
41.2%

Source: Epoch AI (as “Grok 4.6”), best recorded result, CC BY 4.0. A dash means no published score. Compare all models

What Grok 4.6 costs in practice

WorkloadMonthly cost
Support chatbot
100,000 replies a month, ~1,500 input tokens (system prompt + history) and ~400 output tokens each.
$540.00
Document Q&A (RAG)
50,000 questions a month with ~8,000 tokens of retrieved context and ~600 output tokens each.
$980.00
Coding agent
10,000 agent steps a month, ~40,000 input tokens each (70% read from the prompt cache) and ~2,000 output tokens.
$500.00

Pricing details

  • Requests with 200K or more prompt tokens are billed at $4 input / $1 cached / $12 output for all tokens.
  • Web Search and X Search tools cost $5 per 1,000 calls.

Estimate your Grok 4.6 bill

Standard-tier list prices. Long-context rates apply automatically where the provider publishes a threshold. Excludes cache-write surcharges, taxes, batch and volume discounts.