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Grok 4.6

Added Aug 12, 2026

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Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI's frontier reasoning model for coding, knowledge work, and STEM. It supports text, image, and file inputs with tool calling and structured outputs. Reasoning is always active, and requests above 200k input tokens use higher long-context rates. Content policy rejections can still be charged: SpaceXAI may pass through a $0.05 moderation-failure fee, or a $0.055 usage-guidelines violation fee, depending on which rejection upstream returns.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
Input
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
low · medium · high · xhigh
Discovery tier
Frontier

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Cache read
$0.50

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
500K
Max output
—
Average output (7 days)
1.8K tokens
Longer than 89% of 473 models

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Grok 4.6xAIThis modelKimi K3 TEEMoonshotRemove
ProviderxAIMoonshot
Discovery tierFrontierOpen weights
AddedAug 12, 2026Jul 31, 2026
Limits
Context window500K1.05MBest
Max output—65.54K
Average output1.8K tokens1.1K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$2.00Best$3.00
Output$6.00Best$15.00
Cache read$0.50Best$1.50
Performance
Throughput155.2 tok/sBest87.4 tok/s
Time to first token3.0 sBest3.2 s
Request success (24h)100.0%Best98.0%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index44.3Best43.6
Coding Index76.8Best76.2
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
Reasoning effortlow, medium, high, xhighlow, high, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Grok 4.6
  • Kimi K3 TEE

Intelligence Index

  • Grok 4.644.3
  • Kimi K3 TEE43.6

Grok 4.6 tested at high reasoning effort

Grok 4.6: Better than 90% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Grok 4.6: 76.8Top
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 76.2

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Grok 4.6: 66.7%Top
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 58.3%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Grok 4.6: 32.7%Top
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 24.8%

  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • Grok 4.6: —
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 5.3%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Grok 4.6: 1,531 EloTop
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 1,499 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Grok 4.6: 1,618 EloTop
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 1,534 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Grok 4.6: 17.0%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 22.0%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Grok 4.6: 80.3%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 88.7%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Grok 4.6: 15.6%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 21.7%Top

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Grok 4.6: 42.9%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 46.9%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Grok 4.6: 94.9%Top
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 93.5%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Grok 4.6: 21.2%Top
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 12.6%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Grok 4.6: 56.5%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 59.5%Top

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Grok 4.6: 80.3%
    • Kimi K3 TEE: 88.7%Top

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Grok 4.6 was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
155.2 tok/s
Faster than 76% of 256 models
Time to first token
3.0 s
Quicker than 51% of 256 models
Prompt cache hits
85.2%
About $0.72 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
100.0%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 96.4%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "x-ai/grok-4.6",
    "reasoning_effort": "medium",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="x-ai/grok-4.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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