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grok-4.6 API pricing

xAI's Grok series — chat plus image and video generation.

Model IDgrok-4.6

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Input

$2.20$1.10/ 1M tokens

Cache write $1.10

Output

$6.60$3.30/ 1M tokens

Cache read $0.28

Context Window

500K

API Endpoints

Available Configurations

grok-4.6 API endpoints

One API key — call this model through any of the endpoints below.

POST/v1/chat/completionsOpenAI-compatible · Works for every model

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grok-4.6 pricing tiers

Pricing is tiered by total input length per request (cache included); once a threshold is crossed, the whole request is billed at that tier. All prices are per 1M tokens.

Tier

Standard≤ 200K

Input

$2.20$1.10Cache write: $1.10

Output

$6.60$3.30Cache read: $0.28

Tier

Long context> 200K

Input

$4.40$2.20Cache write: $2.20

Output

$13.20$6.60Cache read: $0.55

Tier	Input	Output
Standard≤ 200K	$2.20$1.10Cache write: $1.10	$6.60$3.30Cache read: $0.28
Long context> 200K	$4.40$2.20Cache write: $2.20	$13.20$6.60Cache read: $0.55

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More Grok models on Router One

Same gateway, same API key. Each page lists that model's endpoints, posted price, and context window.

grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning$0.50 in / $1.00 out per 1M1M context grok-4.5$0.80 in / $2.40 out per 1M500K context grok-imagine-image$0.50 per image grok-imagine-image-quality$0.50 per image10K context grok-video-1.5-preview-10s$2.00 per video grok-video-1.5-preview-15s$3.00 per video grok-video-10s$1.00 per video grok-video-15s$2.00 per video

grok-4.6 compared with other models

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Call grok-4.6 from your code

The same API key works across every endpoint below.

Endpoint

/v1/chat/completions

Model ID

grok-4.6

Routing mode

auto

Request example

bash

curl -X POST \
  https://api.router.one/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-4.6",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
  }'

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