Grok 4.6

Price

Input

$2 per 1M tokens

Output

$6 per 1M tokens

Notes

Prompts <200K tokens. At or above 200K: $4 in / $12 out. Cached input $0.50.

Source

xAI pricing , last verified October 8, 2026

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Model

Context

500K (500,000 tokens)

Modality

Text and image

Input

text, image

Output

text

Weights

Closed

Released

August 1, 2026

Tags

reasoning, coding, agents, vision

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

xAI (SpaceXAI)

Retention

API requests and responses stored encrypted for 30 days for abuse auditing, then deleted, never used for training without explicit permission

Zero data retention

Available

Region

No region guarantee on the default endpoint, US regional endpoint (grok-4.7 and grok-4.6 only) at 1.1x pricing

Policy

xAI data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Call it with any OpenAI SDK

Available when the model is live

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-4.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/v1, model xai/grok-4.6.