xAI, released Aug 12, 2026

Grok 4.6price, context, benchmarks and release details

Provisional: not enough results to rank yet 100% confidence 100 percent, Full confidence, 6 of 7 expected sources in
66.6
SI Score
#27 of 142 ranked models
Input, per 1M tokens
$2.00models.devFirst-party hosted API; MIT models.dev transcription. Provider documentation: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models. Exact canonical endpoint; lowest short-context Standard USD token tier; cache/batch discounts excluded. Deprecated endpoints excluded; xai/grok-4.6 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Output, per 1M tokens
$6.00models.devFirst-party hosted API; MIT models.dev transcription. Provider documentation: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models. Exact canonical endpoint; lowest short-context Standard USD token tier; cache/batch discounts excluded. Deprecated endpoints excluded; xai/grok-4.6 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Context window
500Kmodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Max output
500Kmodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Released
Aug 12, 2026models.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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How the score breaks down

Coding (weight 40 percent) 57.5
Math (weight 15 percent) 78.2
Preference (weight 15 percent) 75.8
Reasoning (weight 30 percent) 76.6

Weights: reasoning 30%, math 15%, coding 40%, preference 15%. Results use fixed 0–100 scales before averaging, and thin evidence is pulled toward 50. Method si-v3-retained-evidence-2, computed Oct 9, 2026, 05:13 UTC.

Around it on the leaderboard

  1. 25 Claude Sonnet 5 67.7
  2. 26 Claude Opus 4.8 67.5
  3. 27 Grok 4.6 66.6
  4. 28 Inkling 66.5
  5. 29 Qwen3.6 Max Preview 66.4

Full leaderboard

Benchmark results

27 benchmarks, 42 results

Each row shows the best published result. Where a model was tested at several settings, such as reasoning effort, open the row to see each one. Hover or tap a value for its source.

ARC-AGI-1 (public eval)reasoning 96.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 96.3 4 settings
  • low effort 84%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'low' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • medium effort 94.8%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'medium' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • high effort 96.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • xhigh effort 96.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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About ARC-AGI-1 (public eval)
ARC-AGI-1 (semi-private)reasoning 87.5%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'medium' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 87.5 4 settings
  • low effort 74.8%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'low' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • medium effort 87.5%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'medium' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • high effort 87%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • xhigh effort 87%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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About ARC-AGI-1 (semi-private)
ARC-AGI-2 (public eval)reasoning 68.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 68.3 4 settings
  • low effort 36.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'low' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • medium effort 67.4%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'medium' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • high effort 68.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • xhigh effort 68.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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About ARC-AGI-2 (public eval)
ARC-AGI-2 (semi-private)reasoning 67.1%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 67.1 4 settings
  • low effort 27.6%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'low' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-lowPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • medium effort 61.3%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'medium' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-mediumPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • high effort 65.1%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'high' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-highPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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  • xhigh effort 67.1%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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About ARC-AGI-2 (semi-private)
ARC-AGI-3 (semi-private)reasoning 2.1%ARC PrizeARC Prize steward-published result; exact edition/subset; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the aggregate export, not the evaluation date. Evaluation conducted with 'xhigh' reasoning effort. [variant] xai-grok-4-6-xhighPublished Oct 6, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 2.1
GPQA Diamondreasoning 94.0%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Aug 12, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
Open source ↗ 94.0 2 settings
  • high effort 94.0%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Aug 12, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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  • xhigh effort 93.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 14, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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About GPQA Diamond
LiveBench Reasoning: connectionsreasoning 100%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 100.0
LiveBench Reasoning: consecutive eventsreasoning 78.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 78.1
LiveBench Reasoning: logic with navigationreasoning 82%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 82.0
LiveBench Reasoning: spatialreasoning 98%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 98.0
LiveBench Reasoning: theory of mindreasoning 86.5%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 86.5
LiveBench Reasoning: zebra puzzlesreasoning 95.5%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 95.5
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2)math 31.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 14, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
Open source ↗ 31.7
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 (v2)math 66.0%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 14, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
Open source ↗ 66.0
LiveBench Math: AMPS Hardmath 97%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 97.0
LiveBench Math: competition mathmath 97.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 97.1
LiveBench Math: integralsmath 85%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 85.0
LiveBench Math: olympiadmath 91.2%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 91.2
LiveBench Math: simplifymath 69.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 69.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025math 99.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 14, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
Open source ↗ 99.2 2 settings
  • high effort 97.8%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] highPublished Aug 12, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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  • xhigh effort 99.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 14, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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About OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025
LiveBench Coding: code completioncoding 76.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 76.1
LiveBench Coding: code generationcoding 77.5%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 77.5
LiveBench Coding: JavaScriptcoding 72.7%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 72.7
LiveBench Coding: Pythoncoding 55%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 55.0
LiveBench Coding: TypeScriptcoding 43.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
Open source ↗ 43.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0coding 20.3%Official model cards via models.devLab-reported; metric score; transcribed by MIT models.dev catalog; not independently evaluated [variant] high effort; 4.0Published Sep 21, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; MIT transcription
Open source ↗ 20.3 2 settings
  • high effort 20.3%Official model cards via models.devLab-reported; metric score; transcribed by MIT models.dev catalog; not independently evaluated [variant] high effort; 4.0Published Sep 21, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; MIT transcription
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  • Setting 2 20.3%Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench 4.0; published harness submission, 95% CI retained at source [variant] Grok Build; highPublished Sep 3, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · Apache-2.0; factual citation
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About Terminal-Bench 4.0
LMArena Textpreference 1427.8 eloLMArena / ArenaPublished source fact [variant] text / overallPublished Oct 8, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0
Open source ↗ 75.8

Normalization uses a fixed 0–100 scale for each unit, independent of other models. Compare evaluation conditions before reading a small gap as decisive. “Lab-reported” marks the provider's own published figure.

Details and sources

Open weights
Nomodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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License
not yet reported
Input modalities
text, imagemodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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First seen by SuperIndex
Oct 8, 2026
Coverage
87% of expected source weight

Reported (6)

  • ARC PrizeOct 8, 2026
  • Epoch AI BenchmarkingOct 8, 2026
  • Official model cards via models.devOct 8, 2026
  • LiveBenchOct 8, 2026
  • LMArena / ArenaOct 8, 2026
  • Terminal-BenchOct 8, 2026

Awaiting (1)

  • Humanity’s Last Exam13% of weight

Confidence rises as pending sources publish. Some sources never cover some models, so confidence reaches 100% at 80% of expected weight.

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