Migrating from grok-4.5 to grok-4.6
What changes when you move from grok-4.5 to grok-4.6: input price 0%, output price 0%.
- From
- grok-4.5
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
- To
- grok-4.6
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | grok-4.5 | grok-4.6 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
| Cached input | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source | +66.7% |
| Output | $6.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $6.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $3.50 on grok-4.5, $3.50 on grok-4.6 (0%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
TokensNeither company publishes a context window or output limit for these models.
Benchmarks
Same benchmark and source on both sides; settings named where they differ| Benchmark | grok-4.5 | grok-4.6 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena, high effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. | 1466 ±4 | 1455 ±5 | −11 |
| Arena Text: CodingArena, high effort (vs no setting). | 1514 ±7 | 1510 ±8 | −4 within range |
| Arena WebDevArena, high effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. | 1553 ±7 | 1617 ±8 | +64 |
| Arena VisionArena, high effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. | 1280 ±7 | 1262 ±9 | −18 |
| Arena DocumentArena, high effort (vs no setting). | 1464 ±9 | 1461 ±12 | −3 within range |
| Arena AgentArena, xhigh effort (vs no setting). | 0.001 ±0.011 | 0.012 ±0.011 | +0.011 within range |
| FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI, xhigh effort (vs high effort). | 24.4% | 31.7% | +7.3 pts |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Epoch AI, xhigh effort (vs high effort). | 57.2% | 66.0% | +8.8 pts |
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI, high effort.Other settings
| 93.4% | 94.0% | +0.6 pts |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI, xhigh effort (vs high effort).Other settings
| 97.8% | 99.2% | +1.4 pts |
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI, high effort.Other settings
| 48.3% | 49.3% | +1.0 pts |
A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsNeither company publishes feature facts for these models.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| grok-4.6 | Amazon Bedrock | xai.grok-4.6 | not before Aug 18, 2027Active |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
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