Grok 4.6: release date and what it's for
Released , according to xAI's announcement. The flagship until Grok 4.7 replaced it on September 21, at the same price. Half the context of Grok 4.3 and nearly twice the price, which is an odd trade until you read the benchmarks. Prompts at or over 200K tokens bill double on every token in the request.
- Status
- Live
- Released
- Lab
- xAI
- Input
- $2per million tokens
- Output
- $6per million tokens
- Context window
- 500Ktokens
- Max output
- Not published
API model ID: grok-4.6
What is Grok 4.6 capable of?
3 posts from people showing what they made with Grok 4.6, newest and most-reacted first. People are posting code and game made with it.
Each card is the original post, shown the way X or Reddit embeds it, with a link to where it came from. We picked the ones that show something being made and skipped the benchmark screenshots. We can't vouch for any of them being unedited.
What we've written about Grok 4.6
ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
The tool's author says the attack had nothing to do with them, and that ARTEX was built for research and authorized testing.
CrowdStrike says an attacker likely used the ARTEX AI agent against South Korean banks
The attacker left their Claude Code histories in an open directory, including the part where they asked Claude where to sell the data.
Grok 4.7, Grok 4.8 and Grok Build: which Grok is out and what each one is for
Grok 4.7 shipped ten days after Musk said it needed a few more days, and the next one has a size but no date.
xAI's own table puts Grok 4.7 ahead of Fable 5.1 on three of seven benchmarks
Input tokens cost $2 a million against Fable 5.1 Max's $10, and output $6 against $50, on a table xAI drew itself.
How Grok 4.6 compares on price and context
inputoutput
- GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
- Grok 4.6$2 / $6
- Grok 4.7$2 / $6
- Grok 4.5$2 / $6
- Muse Spark 1.3$1.25 / $4.25
- Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75 / $3.75
- Grok Build 0.1$1 / $2
how much it reads at once
- GPT-6 Astra1.05M
- Muse Spark 1.31.05M
- Gemini 3.8 Flash1.05M
- Grok 4.6500K
- Grok 4.7500K
- Grok 4.5500K
- Grok Build 0.1256K
Next to the newest xAI models and the current model from other labs. Prices are in US dollars per million tokens.
What is Grok 4.6?
Grok 4.6 is a model from xAI, built in the US. It's out, and you can use it today.
When did Grok 4.6 come out?
xAI released it on August 12, 2026. That date comes from xAI's announcement.
More from xAI
Grok 4.7
- in /1M
- $2
- out /1M
- $6
- context
- 500K
Grok 4.5
- in /1M
- $2
- out /1M
- $6
- context
- 500K
Grok Build 0.1
- in /1M
- $1
- out /1M
- $2
- context
- 256K
Grok 5
No price or context window published yet
Grok 4.8
No price or context window published yet
Grok 4.3
- in /1M
- $1.25
- out /1M
- $2.50
- context
- 1M
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