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Grok 4.6 API pricing

xAI's current flagship model for coding, agentic tasks, tool use and general knowledge work.

How much does Grok 4.6 API cost?

Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per 1 million input tokens and $6.00 per 1 million output tokens through TokenGate.

TokenGate API pricing
Condition	Input tokens / 1M	Cached input / 1M	Output tokens / 1M
Short context	$2.00	$0.50	$6.00
Long context (≥ 200K)	$4.00	$1.00	$12.00

Requests with 200K context or more use higher long-context pricing.

Estimate Grok 4.6 API cost

Model

Input tokens / request

Output tokens / request

Requests / month

Estimated monthly cost (USDT)$50.00USDT

Estimated TokenGate cost, denominated in USDT.

Use Grok 4.6 with the OpenAI SDK

curl https://api.tokengate.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKENGATE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"grok-4.6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Change the model identifier to use another supported model through the same TokenGate integration.

Model specifications

Provider: xAI
API model identifier: grok-4.6
Generation: 4.6
Provider lifecycle: Active
Context window: 500K
Input modalities: Text, Image
Output modalities: Text
Capabilities: Function calling, Structured outputs, Vision, Reasoning, Tool use, Web search, Code execution