Specification

Release date: 12 Aug 2026
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Context window: 500K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Max output: 450K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Modalities: image, text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Input modalities: image, text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Output modalities: text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Tokenizer: Grok
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
File input: Yes
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Openrouter id: x-ai/grok-4.6
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Supported parameters: include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium

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Provenance

Attributed facts

15

Source tiers

T215

Freshest observation

37 min ago

Conflicts

None

Modalities

Modalities: imagetext
Input: imagetext
Output: text

Capabilities

Tool calling
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Structured output
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Reasoning
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Vision
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Audio
Unavailable
Fine-tuning available
Unavailable

Context window: 500K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Max output: 450K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium
Tokenizer: Grok
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 37 min agomedium

No benchmark results recorded

Results appear when a tier 1–3 source publishes them; we never copy scores without a source.

Current prices

Current prices per 1M tokens
Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cached in	Batch in / out	Context	Observed	Source
xAI APIx-ai/grok-4.6	$2	$6	$0.50	—	500K	37 min ago	openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider (USD). Rows are append-only: every change is kept in the history below.

Available through 1

xAI API

Price history

Input price · USD / 1M tokens

Output price · USD / 1M tokens

xAI API

No hardware estimate available

Estimates need a parameter count; this model has none recorded from a source.

No lineage recorded

Lineage comes from explicit `derived_from`, `fine_tuned_from`, `distilled_from` and `quantized_from` relations stated by sources.

Papers 0

No papers linked yet.

Repositories 0

No repositories linked yet.

As of

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Claim history

15 claims · 15 properties

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
12 Aug 2026	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Context windowcontext_length1

Claim history for Context window
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
500K tokens	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
450K tokens	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Modalitiesmodalities1

Claim history for Modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
image, text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input1

Claim history for Input modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
image, text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Tokenizertokenizer1

Claim history for Tokenizer
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Grok	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI's smartest model with frontier performance on coding, knowledge work, and STEM.	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

File inputfile_input1

Claim history for File input
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
x-ai/grok-4.6	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Visionvision1

Claim history for Vision
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

12 Aug 2026
New modelModelGrok 4.6xAI
New model: Grok 4.6 (xAI)
openrouter
openrouter.ai
11 Sept 2026
Listed by providerModelGrok 4.6xAI
xAI API lists Grok 4.6 at $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens
openrouter
openrouter.ai

Full timeline →

Source documents
Source	Document	Type	Tier	Last observed	Snapshots
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing	openrouter.ai/api/v1/models	catalogue	T2· Quality secondary	37 min ago	1

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.