Grok 4.6
xAI's Grok 4.6 is a very large hosted model for answering questions and writing text, available to developers through xAI's services.
Key facts
- Released
- Aug 12, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.
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- Knowledge cutoff
- February 2026 · the latest events it learned about
- How
- For developers, through an API
- Size
- Parameters: The numbers a model learns during training: a rough measure of its size. Bigger usually means more capable, but slower and pricier to run. 7B means 7 billion.
- Announced as
- “Introducing Grok 4.6”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $2.00
- per million tokensCached: $0.50
- Output
- $6.00
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 500K tokens
- about 380,000 words
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- Over 200K tokens
- $4.00 input, $12.00 output per million tokens
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Building apps, by people's votes#27 of 85
- Claude Opus 5.51,818
- 2Claude Sonnet 5.51,773
- 26DeepSeek V4.1 Flash1,621
- 27Grok 4.61,618
- 28GPT-5.6 Sol1,615
Source: LMArena · LMArena WebDev
Compare Grok 4.6 with
It came out 35 days after Grok 4.5, the lab's previous model.
The details
Grok 4.6 is xAI's 1,500 billion parameters: Data-centre scale: it runs on many chips (GPUs) at once. Parameters are the numbers a model learns: a rough measure of its size. hosted text model for language generation and question answering, accessed via API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. with no download.
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