Grok 4.6
xAI · Proprietary · rank 17 · bench-align-v5
Canonical idgrok-4-6
Access typeProprietary
Blended $/1M$3.0075% input / 25% output
Capability shape
Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.
Runtime service evidence
Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.
Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.
Evidence key: Observed
| Measurement | Value | Observed | Last good | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first token | 40.56 s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 | |
| Throughput | 60 tok/s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.
Endpoint and price matrix
Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.
| Component | USD | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.00 | |
| Output / 1M tokens | $6.00 | |
| Cache read / 1M tokens | $0.50 | |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | Unavailable | |
| Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output) | $3.00 |
Self-hosted listingxAI's August 12, 2026 release notes list grok-4.6 at $2.00 input / $0.50 cached input / $6.00 output per million tokens below 200K prompt tokens. Prompts above 200K use the published $4.00 / $1.00 / $12.00 long-context tier; BenchLM stores the short-context rate.The rates above are a hosted price matched from another provider, not a first-party list price.
Workload-aware monthly cost example
10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.
Benchmark record
34 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.
Knowledge
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 44.4 | Cross-benchmark intelligence index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-GPQA Diamond Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond | 94.9 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate-level science reasoning | Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-HLE Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam | 42.9 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert reasoning | Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-Omniscience Index Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index | 30.5 | Knowledge questions | Broad factual knowledge | AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy | 48.2 | Knowledge questions | Broad knowledge | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate | 34.3 | Knowledge questions | Factuality | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run | 94.7 | Graduate-level science questions | Expert reasoning | Vals AI GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run | 89.4 | Academic multiple-choice questions | Broad academic knowledge | Vals AI MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run leaderboard |
Coding
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VulcanBench v3 VulcanBench v3 | 87.0 | 23 post-cutoff repository tasks in the v3 report | Professional multi-file software engineering | VulcanBench |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 61.3 | 150 private software-engineering tasks | Frontier coding-agent quality | GPT-5.6 models are now available in Devin |
| FrontierSWE v2 FrontierSWE v2 | 25.3 | 34 ultra-long-horizon engineering and research tasks | Ultra-long-horizon frontier software engineering | FrontierSWE v2 |
| Bug Hunt Bench Bug Hunt Bench | 27 | 105 planted bugs across two production TypeScript repositories | Blind production-repository bug finding and repair | Bug Hunt Bench method, caveats, and definitions |
| AA Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index | 76.8 | Cross-benchmark coding index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA-SciCode Artificial Analysis SciCode | 56.5 | Scientific coding subproblems | Scientific programming | Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run | 88.2 | Competitive programming problems (easy, medium, hard) | Frontier coding | Vals AI LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| SWE-bench (Vals) SWE-bench, Vals AI run | 95.6 | Real repository issues by human time bucket | Frontier coding agents | Vals AI SWE-bench, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| DeepSWE DeepSWE | 65.9 | 113 software engineering tasks across 91 repositories and 5 languages | Long-horizon software engineering | DeepSWE benchmark blog |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA-LCR Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning | 80.3 | Long-context reasoning tasks | Long-context reasoning | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| CritPt Critical Physics Tasks | 17.1 | Research-level physics questions | Research-level physics reasoning | CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard |
Agentic
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 26.5 | 74 professional computer-work tasks across 7 domains | Frontier autonomous knowledge work | Terminal-Bench 3.0 |
| AA Briefcase Artificial Analysis Briefcase | 1534 | Professional knowledge-work tasks | Professional work | Artificial Analysis Briefcase Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA AutomationBench Artificial Analysis AutomationBench | 66.7 | Business-process automation tasks | Agentic automation | Artificial Analysis AutomationBench Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA EnterpriseOps-Gym Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym | 48.3 | Enterprise operations workflows | Enterprise agent operations | Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA Tau3 Banking Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking | 50.7 | Banking tool-use workflows | Agentic banking workflows | Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking Benchmark Leaderboard |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA | 1643 | Agentic real-world work tasks | Professional agentic workflows | DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA normalized | 57.1 | Economically valuable tasks | Professional agentic workflows | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index | 53.4 | Cross-benchmark agentic index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA Terminal-Bench 4.0 Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0 | 21.2 | Terminal-based agent tasks | Agentic software engineering | Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0 Benchmark Leaderboard |
| GDP.pdf Artificial Analysis GDP.pdf | 17.0 | Professional document-production tasks | Professional knowledge work | GDP.pdf Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-AnalystAgent Artificial Analysis AnalystAgent | 41.3 | Spreadsheet and document analysis questions | Business and data analysis | AA-AnalystAgent Benchmark Leaderboard |
| APEX-Agents APEX-Agents | 57.5 | Professional-services agent tasks | Long-horizon professional work | Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run | 78.3 | Difficult terminal tasks | Frontier agentic | Vals AI Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| ApprenticeBench ApprenticeBench: end-to-end computer use, continual learning, and long-horizon agency on a real accounts-payable job | 13 | 100 vendor bills processed in sequence inside a simulated construction company | Long-horizon computer use with offline and online continual learning | ApprenticeBench: a step change in AI's job readiness |
Multimodal & Grounded
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena Website Design Arena Website Elo | 1305 | Website generation comparisons | Design and website generation | OpenRouter Grok 4.3 benchmarks |
Lifecycle and limitations log
Lifecycle events the source associates with this model, plus what this profile does not claim.
No lifecycle event references this model.
That is not evidence the model has no lifecycle plan — only that this source published none.
What this profile does not claimValues are reproduced exactly as their sources published them, in the units those sources declared; none are converted, interpolated, or averaged across providers. Any field marked unavailable was attempted and not returned — the attempt timestamp is in each badge. Last attempted fetch for this model’s score: 2026-09-17 17:17 UTC.