Last refreshed 2026-08-24. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Grok 4.6 on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Grok 4.6 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $2.00/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Grok 4.6 across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: x-ai/grok-4.6x-ai/grok-4.6Request example
x-ai/grok-4.6.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "x-ai/grok-4.6", not the LLMReference slug "grok-4.6".
Compare Grok 4.6 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| xAI Console | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| OpenRouter | $2.00 | $6.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $2.00 |
| Output tokens | $6.00 |
Capabilities
About Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 is xAI/SpaceXAI's August 2026 frontier model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It is publicly available as grok-4.6 on the xAI API and is also offered in Cursor and Grok Build. Official docs list text and image input, text output, a 500,000-token context window, no published text output limit, function calling, structured outputs, prompt caching, code execution, web search, X search, and configurable reasoning effort (low, medium, high default, or xhigh). Knowledge cutoff is February 1, 2026. Batch API is not supported.