xAI releases Grok 4.6 at 2 dollars per million input tokens and 6 per million output

Sources: primary, discussion
Summary: xAI released Grok 4.6 and published API pricing of 2 dollars per million input tokens and 6 dollars per million output tokens, along with the surfaces the model ships on. The announcement's benchmark table is xAI's own and states that competitor figures are the best of self-reported or publicly available results, so those comparisons are not a like-for-like measurement.
Why it matters: The published pricing and the named distribution surfaces are the checkable parts of the release, and they are what a team comparing hosted models can act on.