How much does Grok 4.6 cost?

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $2.00 per 1M tokens on every provider, and output starts at $6.00 per 1M tokens on every provider, after gateway discounts.

Which providers serve Grok 4.6 on Respan?

5 providers serve Grok 4.6: Inference.net, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Google Vertex AI, and xAI. Perplexity and Google Vertex AI require your own provider API key (BYOK).

What is Grok 4.6's context window?

Grok 4.6 accepts up to 500K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

How do I use Grok 4.6 with the Respan gateway?

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "xai/grok-4.6". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

How fast is Grok 4.6?

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 52 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 1.8 seconds on xAI. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Where does Grok 4.6 rank on the Respan Index?

Grok 4.6 scores 51.0 out of 100 on the Respan Index v1.1, ranking #19 of 138 models. By category: Coding 33.8, Agents 64.9, Reasoning 51.7, Knowledge & language 51.0, and Human preference 55.5. The Respan Index combines independent and lab-reported benchmark results into one score, using benchmark data collected by llmmetric.com.

How does Grok 4.6 score on benchmarks?

Grok 4.6 has 41 published benchmark scores, including LiveBench Coding 76.8%, APEX-Agents 65.3%, and GPQA Diamond 94%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is a model from SpaceXAI with frontier performance on coding, knowledge work, and STEM. It is succeeded by Grok 4.7.

Tool Use

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Help me set up the Respan gateway: fetch and follow https://respan.ai/docs/agent-setup.md. Use model "xai/grok-4.6".

Context window: 500K tokens
Input from: $2.00/M
Output from: $6.00/M
Providers: 5
Released: Aug 12, 2026

Providers

5 providers serve this model through the Respan gateway, cheapest first. Copy a model ID to call that route directly.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
Inference.net`inference_net/grok-4.6`	500K	$2.00/M	$6.00/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/x-ai/grok-4.6`	500K	$2.00/M	$6.00/M
PerplexityBYOK only`perplexity/xai/grok-4.6`	500K	$2.00/M	$6.00/M
Google Vertex AIBYOK only`vertex_ai/xai/grok-4.6`	500K	$2.00/M	$6.00/M
xAI`xai/grok-4.6`	500K	$2.00/M	$6.00/M

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Pricing

Averaged across 5 providers, in USD per 1M tokens after gateway discounts.

Average input: $2.00/M
Average output: $6.00/M
Average cache read: $0.50/M
Average cache write: $0.00/M

Cost by volume

Total cost from 0 to 1T tokens.

$2.00/MInference.net, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Google Vertex AI, and xAI

Throughput and latency

30-day averages per provider from requests through the Respan gateway, best first. 3 of 5 providers had traffic in that window.

Output speed

Higher is better

52tokens/sbest, on OpenRouter

OpenRouter52 tok/s
xAI35 tok/s
Inference.net26 tok/s

Response latency

Lower is better

1.8sbest, on xAI

xAI1.8 s
Inference.net4.7 s
OpenRouter7.2 s

Benchmarks

41 published scores for Grok 4.6 from 11 sources. Each score links to where it was published. Percentages are out of 100. Arena ratings are Elo, marked between the lowest and highest rated model on each leaderboard.

Respan Indexv1.1

51.0/ 100#19 of 138 ranked models

95% interval 46.4 to 55.7. Measured in 5 of 5 categories.

Full ranking How it is scored

Each dot is one of the 138 ranked models; the shaded band is this model's 95% interval.

By category

Coding10

Benchmark data from llmmetric.com

Grok 4.6

Providers

Certified where it counts.

Pricing

Cost by volume

Throughput and latency

Output speed

Response latency

Benchmarks

Respan Indexv1.1

Coding10

Apps

Grok 4.6 FAQ

Works with your entire stack

Built for AI agents.
Break less.
Ship more.

Agents6

Reasoning8

Math6

Knowledge4

Multimodal1

Arena4

Other2

Grok 4.6

Providers

Certified where it counts.

Pricing

Cost by volume

Throughput and latency

Output speed

Response latency

Benchmarks

Respan Indexv1.1

Coding10

Apps

Grok 4.6 FAQ

What is Grok 4.6?

How much does Grok 4.6 cost?

Which providers serve Grok 4.6 on Respan?

What is Grok 4.6's context window?

How do I use Grok 4.6 with the Respan gateway?

How fast is Grok 4.6?

Where does Grok 4.6 rank on the Respan Index?

How does Grok 4.6 score on benchmarks?

Works with your entire stack

Built for AI agents. Break less. Ship more.

Agents6

Reasoning8

Math6

Knowledge4

Multimodal1

Arena4

Other2

Built for AI agents.
Break less.
Ship more.