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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 Overview

Grok 4.6 is a proprietary reasoning model from xAI aimed at long-running agentic workflows, coding, and knowledge work. It accepts text and image input and returns text, with a 500,000 token context window and a knowledge cutoff of February 1, 2026. The model exposes an adjustable reasoning budget with low, medium, high, and xhigh settings, where high is the default, and it supports function calling, structured outputs, web and X search, and code execution as documented tool behaviors. Its visual capability covers interpreting images supplied alongside text prompts, which places it in the visual question answering and document understanding family rather than producing pixel level outputs such as boxes or masks.

xAI characterizes Grok 4.6 as the result of an extended post-training run over the Grok 4.5 lineage rather than a new pretrained base. The described recipe combines curated model-generated reasoning and technical data, engineering data, a revised optimizer, regenerated supervised fine-tuning trajectories, and reinforcement learning across agent environments spanning knowledge work, coding, kernel optimization, web development, and computer-aided design. Parameter count and architecture specifics are not disclosed. Independent measurement from Artificial Analysis places the model at 61 on its Intelligence Index, five points above Grok 4.5.

Grok 4.6 Interactive Demo

Grok 4.6 Details & Performance

Details

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Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Features

Foundation VisionLLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

Arena Rankings

Grok 4.6 Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across six vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated August 12, 2026Pricing updated August 13, 2026

Overall score#16 of 28
67.8%
Avg cost / sample#17 of 28
$0.0069
Avg speed / sample#16 of 28
7.39s
Avg tokens / sample
2.1K

Strengths and weaknesses

Grok 4.6 averages 67.8% across the six Vision Evals tasks, ranking #16 of 28 models overall.

Its weakest relative showing is Object Detection, ranking #26 of 28 at 20.2%.

At $0.0069 per sample it is the 17th cheapest of the 28 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 7.4s per sample makes it the 16th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianGrok 4.6

Field medians: Object Detection 55.2%, Counting 64.2%, Identification 84.4%, OCR 90.9%, Data Extraction 86.6%, Reasoning 58.0%.

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection
20.2%
#26 of 28$0.00686.47s
Counting
70.3%
#8 of 28$0.00748.69s
Identification
78.1%
#21 of 28$0.00485.33s
OCR
92.0%
#11 of 28$0.00868.50s
Data Extraction
84.5%
#16 of 28$0.00424.51s
Reasoning (low)
61.6%
#12 of 28$0.008710.29s
Reasoning (high)
61.6%
#18 of 27$0.02737.83s
  • Thinking longer changes nothing: the same reasoning score at high effort for 3.1x the cost and 3.7x the latency.

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

28 models on the current benchmark · scores and efficiency pooled across all six tasks at low effort · Grok 4.6 highlighted

Grok 4.6 scores from a single evaluation run · Methodology

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Grok 4.6 Pricing

Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$2.00 / 1M tokens
Output$6.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.500 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Aug 13, 2026

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Other SpaceXAI Grok models

Other versions in the same family as Grok 4.6.

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Deploy Grok 4.6 with an API

Grok 4.6 runs as a hosted REST endpoint through Roboflow Workflows. Pick a task, then hand the prompt to your coding agent or copy the code. Forking the workflow into a free Roboflow workspace replaces the your-workspace and YOUR_API_KEY placeholders with your own.

Connect your agent to Roboflow (once)

Add the Roboflow MCP server

claude mcp add --transport http roboflow https://mcp.roboflow.com/mcp

Run /mcp and authorize Roboflow in your browser when the OAuth flow opens.

Start a new Claude Code session so the MCP loads, then paste the prompt below (it works the same in any agent).

Fork this workflow to your Roboflow workspace to use it.

Integrate the Roboflow "Grok 4.6" workflow into my app.

- Endpoint: POST https://serverless.roboflow.com/<your-workspace>/workflows/playground-grok-4-6-c
- Auth: send my Roboflow API key as `api_key` in the request body, read from the ROBOFLOW_API_KEY env var (never hardcode).
- Body: { "api_key": ..., "inputs": { `image`: { type: "url" | "base64", value }, `model_api_key`: my provider key } }.

With the Roboflow MCP connected, call `workflows_get` on "playground-grok-4-6-c" to read the exact input schema and treat it as the source of truth. A live `workflows_run` for this workflow also needs my OpenRouter key (`model_api_key`) passed as a runtime parameter; if you don't have it yet, skip the test run — it will fail with a server error without the provider key, which is expected and not a problem with your code — and rely on the schema. Validate the real run via the REST call once the keys below are set. Without the MCP, use the contract above.

Before running the app, set up these keys so it does not error at runtime:
- `ROBOFLOW_API_KEY` (sent as `api_key`) from https://app.roboflow.com/settings/api
- `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` (sent as `model_api_key`) from https://openrouter.ai/keys — my OpenRouter key
Create a .gitignore'd .env with these variables, using placeholder values for any I haven't given you. Then pause and tell me directly, in your reply: the full path to the .env file, exactly which keys I need to paste in, and the link to get each one. Wait for me to confirm I've added them before you run anything. Do not run the app until I confirm.

Then add the integration to my codebase: match my project's language, framework, and conventions; read every key from environment variables (never hardcode); add basic error handling; and include a small runnable example. If you can't tell what language my project uses, ask me.
Installpip install inference-sdk

Fork this workflow to your Roboflow workspace to use it.

# 1. Import the library
from inference_sdk import InferenceHTTPClient

# 2. Connect to your workflow
client = InferenceHTTPClient(
  api_url="https://serverless.roboflow.com",
  api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

# 3. Run your workflow on an image
result = client.run_workflow(
  workspace_name="your-workspace",
  workflow_id="playground-grok-4-6-c",
  images={
    "image": "YOUR_IMAGE.jpg"  # Path to your image file
  },
  parameters={
    "model_api_key": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY"
  },
  use_cache=True  # cache workflow definition for 15 minutes
)

# 4. Get your results
print(result)

Fork this workflow to your Roboflow workspace to use it.

const response = await fetch('https://serverless.roboflow.com/your-workspace/workflows/playground-grok-4-6-c', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    inputs: {
      "image": {"type": "url", "value": "IMAGE_URL"},
      "model_api_key": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY"
    }
  })
});

const result = await response.json();
console.log(result);

Fork this workflow to your Roboflow workspace to use it.

curl --location 'https://serverless.roboflow.com/your-workspace/workflows/playground-grok-4-6-c' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  "inputs": {
    "image": {"type": "url", "value": "IMAGE_URL"},
    "model_api_key": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY"
  }
}'

Grok 4.6 License

Proprietary

Grok 4.6 is proprietary: the weights are not distributed, and the Grok 4.6 license is the vendor's commercial terms of service that you accept when you call the API.

Commercial use
Permitted under the vendor terms, typically metered per token or per request, with the vendor usage policy applying to your inputs and outputs.
Modification
Not available. Grok 4.6 weights are closed, so you can configure prompts and use vendor-hosted fine-tuning where it is offered, but you cannot modify the model itself.
Redistribution
Not permitted. You cannot self-host or resell the model; you build on the hosted API instead.

Vendor terms govern data retention, whether your inputs can be trained on, rate limits, and regional availability, and they can change with notice. Review them if you handle regulated or customer data.

Do I need a commercial license for Grok 4.6?

Proprietary terms are set by the vendor rather than negotiated per project, and no open-source obligation attaches to your code. If you would rather deploy a model whose commercial license is included in your plan — on Roboflow Managed Cloud or a Self-Hosted Inference Server — Roboflow's licensing page lists the supported alternatives to Grok 4.6.

Do not hesitate to reach out with questions for your commercial project — our team will help you start solving business problems on the first call. See Roboflow commercial licensing for the models included in each plan.

Talk to sales

This model is proprietary. The author retains all rights, and use of the model is governed by their specific terms of service or license agreement.

Commercial use depends on the terms set by the model author. Most proprietary commercial models require a paid subscription, API key, or per-call billing. Check the provider’s pricing and terms-of-service for details.

License information is provided as a guide and is not legal advice.

Frequently Asked Questions About Grok 4.6 Vision

Yes. Grok 4.6 accepts image input and handles OCR, data extraction, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is Counting at 70.3% (#8 of 28). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes. its transcriptions match the ground truth 92% on average (#11 of 28) on Vision Evals OCR. Pulling specific fields out of documents (data extraction) scores 84.5%.

Not its strength. On Vision Evals, Grok 4.6 scores 20.2% mAP@50 on object detection (#26 of 28) and 70.3% exact-match accuracy on object counting. For production counting or precise localization, pairing it with a specialized detector like RF-DETR or your own trained model in a Roboflow Workflow is usually more reliable: detect the objects, then count the detections.

On our benchmark's task mix, Grok 4.6 averages $0.0069 per sample at $2.00 per 1M input and $6.00 per 1M output tokens (#17 of 28 on cost), with an average speed of 7.4s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, Grok 4.6 sits #16 of 28 at 67.8%, just behind Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (69.6%) and just ahead of Qwen 3.7 Plus (67.4%). See the full side-by-side: Grok 4.6 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite.