Model Details
Owner
xAI
Released
Aug 13, 2026
Status
Active
Context Length
500,000
Max Output
NA
Provider
Perplexity
Where is grok-4.6 a perfect fit?
Grok 4.6 is xAI's latest frontier model, focused particularly on long-running agents, agentic coding, knowledge work, and interactive or visual applications. xAI says it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
- Long-running autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale software engineering and coding
- Complex debugging, refactoring, and application development
- Deep research and knowledge-work automation
- Multimodal analysis involving images and visual interfaces
- Interactive application and UI-building workflows
- Multi-step tool-calling and agentic workflows
- Enterprise applications requiring frontier-level reasoning at comparatively low API cost
- Long-running autonomous AI agents
- Repository-scale software engineering and coding
- Complex debugging, refactoring, and application development
- Deep research and knowledge-work automation
- Multimodal analysis involving images and visual interfaces
- Interactive application and UI-building workflows
- Multi-step tool-calling and agentic workflows
- Enterprise applications requiring frontier-level reasoning at comparatively low API cost
Quick Model Estimate
Your GPT-5 Cost Estimate
💰 Total Cost
USD 3.00
for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens
📥 Input (1000 × $2.000000)
USD 1.5000
📤 Output (1000 × $6.000000)
USD 1.5000
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