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Grok 4.6
● liveLive — Aug 12 at $2/$6 per 1M, unchanged from Grok 4.5. On the board as live since 2026-08-12 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.
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#18 of 31 on the coding index, at 43.3 · combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding, Vals Vibe Code Bench
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Where to use Grok 4.6
31 providers list Grok 4.6 in the models.dev catalog (as of 2026-10-04), under the model ids shown below.
grok-4.6global.xai.grok-4.6 · us.xai.grok-4.6 · xai.grok-4.6xai/grok-4.6grok-4.6x-ai/grok-4.6spacexai/grok-4.6grok-4.6grok-4.6grok-4.6xai/grok-4.6x-ai/grok-4.6grok-4-6Also listed by Eden AI, GitHub Copilot, Kenari, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway, Merge Gateway, NanoGPT, Neon, OCI Generative AI, Ofox, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen, Opper, OrcaRouter, Perplexity Agent, Requesty, Tempr Gateway, Venice AI, ZenMux.
Listings cover the model family, so a provider may list a sibling tier under the same name. Check the id before you build on it.
Grok 4.6: quick answers
Is Grok 4.6 out?
Yes. Grok 4.6 is live and has been since August 12, 2026.
When was Grok 4.6 released?
August 12, 2026.
Is Grok 4.6 good for coding?
On the ArtificialWatch coding index it scores 43.3, #18 of 31 ranked models. The index combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding and Vals Vibe Code Bench, taking the median of each model's percentile across them.
Who makes Grok 4.6?
xAI. ArtificialWatch also tracks Grok 4.7, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, Grok 4.5, Grok 4.20, Grok 4, Grok 4.4, Grok 4.8 and Grok 4.9 from xAI.
Where can I use Grok 4.6?
31 providers list it in the models.dev catalog, including xAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex, Azure and OpenRouter. The exact model ids each one lists are on this page.
How much does Grok 4.6 cost?
xAI's own API lists Grok 4.6 (grok-4.6) at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and $0.50 per million cached input tokens. Prompts over 200K tokens cost $4 input and $12 output. Prices as published in the models.dev catalog, as of 2026-10-04.
What is Grok 4.6's context window?
500K tokens, as xAI lists Grok 4.6 (grok-4.6).
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