SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

x-ai · Released Aug 12, 2026 BEST FOR CODING IN-HOUSE PICK NEW
Intelligence #2 / 699
86.6 our score
AA Index #4 / 422
60.9 Artificial Analysis
Input Price #571 / 699
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #547 / 699
$6.00 per 1M tokens
Context #150 / 699
500,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 is a frontier general model with very strong reasoning, coding, and agentic capability. It supports tool use and function calling, accepts images and files, and provides a 500K context window, giving teams room for large documents, codebases, and multi-step operational prompts.

For Design for Online, that combination fits autonomous coding agents, complex research, long-form analysis, visual content review, SEO strategy, and client-facing work where instruction precision matters. The broad modality and workflow support reduce the need to split tasks across specialist models. Its main limitation is cost: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens make it less suitable for undifferentiated bulk traffic.

Adopt Grok 4.6 as a premium lead model for high-value reasoning, agentic, and coding work. Route routine drafting and large-volume automation to a cheaper model.

Assessed August 12, 2026

Editorial notes

Grok 4.6 combines frontier reasoning and coding with strong agentic performance, a 500K context window, vision, file input, and tool calling. Its premium pricing suits complex client workflows more than bulk generation.

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DFO Verdict

Grok 4.6 combines frontier reasoning and coding with strong agentic performance, a 500K context window, vision, file input, and tool calling. Its premium pricing suits complex client workflows more than bulk generation.

#2 of 699 overall In-house pick

How SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 compares

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 ranks #4 of 422 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #4 of 195 for coding, #6 of 177 for agentic tasks. Its 500K-token context window is larger than 79% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 18% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 100% of models #2
Price: cheaper than 18% of models #571
Context: larger than 79% of models #150
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 500K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence8.7Technical8.3Value7Content9.3
Performance profile

Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $6.00 $0.006000

What would SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 cost your business?

Pick the job that looks most like yours, then fine-tune with the sliders. Estimates update live.

A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI's smartest model with frontier performance on coding, knowledge work, and STEM.

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Frequently asked questions about SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

How much does SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 cost?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 has a context window of 500,000 tokens (500K).

Is SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 ranks #4 of 195 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 do?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 is developed by SpaceXAI and was released on August 12, 2026.

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