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Grok 4.6 token cost
Current Grok text flagship at the same $2/$6 short-context list as Grok 4.5, with a higher cached-input rate.
Published list rates
Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$6.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.5
per 1M tokens
Context window
500,000
tokens
Pricing source: xAI API pricing
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Estimated cost
- Estimated tokens
- 100,000
- Characters
- 400,000
- Words
- 75,000
- Input tokens
- 70,000
- Output tokens
- 30,000
- Input cost
- $0.14
- Output cost
- $0.18
- Total cost
- $0.32
- Combined price per 1M tokens
- $3.20
- Estimated monthly cost
- $192.00
- Estimated daily cost
- $6.40
Cost as volume grows
What Grok 4.6 costs if you only send tokens, only get a reply, or do both (70% in / 30% out). Rows start small and go up to huge traffic.
| Tokens | Input only | Output only | Mix (70% in / 30% out) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.000002 | $0.000006 | $0.000003 |
| 10 | $0.00002 | $0.00006 | $0.000032 |
| 100 | $0.0002 | $0.0006 | $0.00032 |
| 200 | $0.0004 | $0.0012 | $0.00064 |
| 300 | $0.0006 | $0.0018 | $0.00096 |
| 400 | $0.0008 | $0.0024 | $0.00128 |
| 500 | $0.001 | $0.003 | $0.0016 |
| 1,000 | $0.002 | $0.006 | $0.0032 |
| 2,000 | $0.004 | $0.012 | $0.0064 |
| 5,000 | $0.01 | $0.03 | $0.016 |
| 10,000 | $0.02 | $0.06 | $0.032 |
| 25,000 | $0.05 | $0.15 | $0.08 |
| 50,000 | $0.1 | $0.3 | $0.16 |
| 100,000 | $0.2 | $0.6 | $0.32 |
| 250,000 | $0.5 | $1.50 | $0.8 |
| 500,000 | $1.00 | $3.00 | $1.60 |
| 1,000,000 | $2.00 | $6.00 | $3.20 |
| 5,000,000 | $10.00 | $30.00 | $16.00 |
| 10,000,000 | $20.00 | $60.00 | $32.00 |
| 50,000,000 | $100.00 | $300.00 | $160.00 |
| 100,000,000 | $200.00 | $600.00 | $320.00 |
| 500,000,000 | $1,000.00 | $3,000.00 | $1,600.00 |
| 1,000,000,000 | $2,000.00 | $6,000.00 | $3,200.00 |
| 10,000,000,000 | $20,000.00 | $60,000.00 | $32,000.00 |
| 100,000,000,000 | $200,000.00 | $600,000.00 | $320,000.00 |
Tokens for a fixed budget
If you cap spend, this is roughly how many Grok 4.6 tokens that money buys.
| Budget | Input tokens | Output tokens | Mixed tokens (70/30) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | 5,000 | 1,667 | 3,125 |
| $0.1 | 50,000 | 16,667 | 31,250 |
| $0.5 | 250,000 | 83,333 | 156,250 |
| $1.00 | 500,000 | 166,667 | 312,500 |
| $5.00 | 2.5M | 833,333 | 1.56M |
| $10.00 | 5M | 1.67M | 3.13M |
| $20.00 | 10M | 3.33M | 6.25M |
| $25.00 | 12.5M | 4.17M | 7.81M |
| $30.00 | 15M | 5M | 9.38M |
| $50.00 | 25M | 8.33M | 15.6M |
| $100.00 | 50M | 16.7M | 31.3M |
| $250.00 | 125M | 41.7M | 78.1M |
| $500.00 | 250M | 83.3M | 156.3M |
| $1,000.00 | 500M | 166.7M | 312.5M |
| $5,000.00 | 2.5B | 833.3M | 1.56B |
| $10,000.00 | 5B | 1.67B | 3.13B |
At these rates
- A workload with 70% input and 30% output costs $3.20 per 1 million total tokens and $320.00 per 100 million.
- At the same token count, output costs 3 times the input rate. Response length therefore deserves its own budget limit.
- Filling the 500,000-token context window with input alone would cost about $1.00, before any output.
- Cached input is $0.5 per million, 75% below standard input when the workload meets the provider’s cache rules.
Short-context (<200k prompt) rates shown. Prompts ≥200k bill $4 input / $1 cached / $12 output per 1M. Cached input is $0.50 vs $0.30 on Grok 4.5.
These figures use public list prices. Cache eligibility, batch or priority modes, long-context surcharges, discounts, and regional billing can change the invoice.