Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is a text-and-image reasoning API with a 500,000-token context and configurable reasoning effort.

What the release provides

The card lists function calling, structured output and batch support. It supports low, medium, high and xhigh effort, with high as the default.Grok 4.6 API model card

How to use it well

Practical guidance. Use a fixed set of real tasks to decide whether an existing 4.6 integration should move to a later release. Keep prompts, tool results and effort unchanged during the comparison so that a changed answer has a clear cause.

Specifications & access

Grok 4.6 specifications
DetailValue and conditions
AccessAPI
Model identifiersgrok-4.6
Context window500,000 tokens

Published API context limit

Grok 4.6 API model card
Input price2 USD per million tokens

Standard uncached input; prompt below 200,000 tokens; higher rate applies to all tokens at the threshold

Grok 4.6 API model card
Output price6 USD per million tokens

Standard output; prompt below 200,000 tokens; excludes tools and batch discounts

Grok 4.6 API model card