vs
0:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Grok 4.6 leads overall.
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Grok 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+147 Elo); Grok 4.6 offers ~3.8x larger context (500K vs 131K); Grok 2 Mini is ~8.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Grok 4.6.
- Grok 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+147 Elo)
- Grok 4.6 offers ~3.8x larger context (500K vs 131K)
- Grok 2 Mini is ~8.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Grok 4.6
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Grok 2 Mini
- $0.42
- Grok 4.6
- $3.50
Grok 2 Mini is about 8.2x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
xAI
xAI
Family
Grok
Grok
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Aug 13, 2024
Aug 12, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
2026-02-01
API / provider
xAI
xAI
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
131K
500K
Max output
8K
-
Parameters
—
1.5T
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$2
Output $/1M
$0.50
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.35
$3
Speed
tok/s
120
-
TTFT (s)
0.25
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
94.9
Humanity's Last Exam
—
42.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
48.2
AA-LCR v1.1
—
80.3
CritPt
—
17.1
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
88.4
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
26.5
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
56.5
CursorBench
—
70.8
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
67.0
WebDev Arena
—
1,618
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
20.3
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,308
1,456
| Metric | Grok 2 Mini | Grok 4.6 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | xAI | xAI | — |
| Family | Grok | Grok | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Aug 13, 2024 | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | 2026-02-01 | — |
| API / provider | xAI | xAI | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 131K | 500K | B +369K |
| Max output | 8K | - | — |
| Parameters | — | 1.5T | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $2 | A +$1.70 |
| Output $/1M | $0.50 | $6 | A +$5.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.35 | $3 | A +$2.65 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 120 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 94.9 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 42.9 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 48.2 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 80.3 | — |
| CritPt | — | 17.1 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 88.4 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | 26.5 | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 56.5 | — |
| CursorBench | — | 70.8 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 67.0 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,618 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | 20.3 | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,308 | 1,456 | B +147 Elo |
Grok 2 Mini
- Context
- 131K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $0.50
- Speed
- 120 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Faster, cheaper Grok 2 sibling for high-volume chat on the xAI API.
Grok 4.6
- Context
- 500K
- Parameters
- 1.5T
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
xAI/SpaceXAI's August 2026 flagship (1.5T-parameter) tuned for long-running agents and ambitious interactive/visual work — 500k context at $2/$6, matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (61). A fast variant is available at 2x price.
Benchmark charts
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