Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Grok-4

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial

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Grok 4.6

Modelo Insignia de Frontera

Grok 4.6 de xAI es un modelo de IA diseñado para razonamiento empresarial de frontera, programación avanzada y flujos de producción, con ventana de contexto de 500K, velocidad de 115 tokens/s, índice de inteligencia de 77/100 y tarifa de $2

Intelligence Index77 / 100

Input Token:

$2.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$6.00 / 1M

Context Window:

500K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

75.8%

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Grok-4

Modelo Insignia de Frontera

Grok-4 de xAI es un modelo de IA diseñado para razonamiento empresarial de frontera, programación avanzada y flujos de producción, con ventana de contexto de 1M, velocidad de 125 tokens/s, índice de inteligencia de 92/100 y tarifa de $2.5/$

Intelligence Index92 / 100

Input Token:

$2.50 / 1M

Output Token:

$10.00 / 1M

Context Window:

1M tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

76.5%

Diferencias Clave de un Vistazo

Grok 4.6 is 1.4x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Grok-4 has a larger context window (1M vs 500K tokens).
Grok-4 is faster at 125 tok/s vs 115 tok/s.
Grok-4 leads on SWE-bench coding (76.5% vs 75.8%).

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Característica	Grok 4.6	Grok-4
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	77	92
Provider	xAI	xAI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$2.00 / 1M	$2.50 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$6.00 / 1M	$10.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$1.35 / 1M	$1.68 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	500K tokens~750 A4 pages of text	1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	66K	64K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	115 tok/s	125 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	75.8%	76.5%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	77.2%	77.8%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.50 / 1M	$0.25 / 1M

¿Quién gana en cada área?

At-a-glance decision framework

Código

Grok-4

+0.7% SWE-bench lead

Costo

Grok 4.6

1.4x cheaper monthly runtime

Velocidad

Grok-4

+9% faster generation

Contexto

Grok-4

1M tokens window

Puntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Grok 4.6Grok-4

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

75.8%vs76.5%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

77.2%vs77.8%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

88%vs87.4%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1450ptsvs1507pts

Humanity's Last Exam (Frontier Expert Knowledge)

Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.

14.8%vs15.6%

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

51%vs54.2%

SciCode (Scientific Computing)

Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.

49.2%vs48.7%

LiveCodeBench (Competitive Coding)

Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.

75%vs75.3%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

89.5%vs89.2%

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

89%vs86.5%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

115 tok/s vs125 tok/s

Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Grok 4.60.58s

Grok-40.68s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Grok 4.64.93s

Grok-44.68s

Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Grok 4.6 Monthly API Bill

$9.15 / month

$2/1M in · $6/1M out

Grok-4 Monthly API Bill

$13.13 / month

$2.5/1M in · $10/1M out

Grok 4.6 saves approximately $3.97 / month (30%) under this workload.1.4x Savings

Grok 4.6 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Ventana de contexto de 500K con hasta 66K tokens de salida máxima (SWE-bench Verified 75.8% · GPQA Diamond 77.2%)
Rendimiento ágil de 115 tokens/segundo con latencia inicial (TTFT) de solo 580 ms
Economía de API competitiva ($2/$6 por 1M de tokens) con soporte para caché de prompts y salidas JSON estructuradas

Considerations & Trade-offs

Modelo propietario en la nube; no permite descargar los pesos para ejecución local sin conexión
En volúmenes masivos de tokens, se recomienda activar el caché de prompts y Batch API para optimizar costos

Grok-4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Ventana de contexto de 1M con hasta 64K tokens de salida máxima (SWE-bench Verified 76.5% · GPQA Diamond 77.8%)
Rendimiento ágil de 125 tokens/segundo con latencia inicial (TTFT) de solo 680 ms
Economía de API competitiva ($2.5/$10 por 1M de tokens) con soporte para caché de prompts y salidas JSON estructuradas

Considerations & Trade-offs

Modelo propietario en la nube; no permite descargar los pesos para ejecución local sin conexión
En volúmenes masivos de tokens, se recomienda activar el caché de prompts y Batch API para optimizar costos

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Grok 4.6	Grok-4
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.65	$1.65
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	45K	48K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	22K	24K

Especificaciones Técnicas

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Característica	Grok 4.6	Grok-4
Official API Model ID (SDK)	grok-4-6-latest	grok-4-latest
API Protocol	xAI REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)	xAI REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)
Release Date	2026-08	2026-07
Knowledge Cutoff	April 2026	Real-time (Up to October 2026)
Architecture	1.5T Colossus Sparse MoE	Colossus-Scale Dense Mixture-of-Experts
Parameters	1.5T (MoE)	Confidential
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM	5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Flat rate ($2/1M in) across full 500K window	Flat rate ($2.5/1M in) across full 1000K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Cached input at $0.5/1M tokens	Cached input at $0.25/1M tokens
Computer Use / GUI Agent	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Real-time Web & X (Twitter) Search Grounding + Code Execution	Real-time Web & X (Twitter) Search Grounding + Code Execution
Official Fine-Tuning Support	API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation	API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Safety & Frontier Classification	xAI Production Safety & Alignment Verified	xAI Production Safety & Alignment Verified
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

Grok 4.6 vs Grok-4: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Grok 4.6 or Grok-4?

Grok-4 is more intelligent. It scores 92 compared with 77 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Grok-4 is faster, generating 125 tokens per second compared with 115 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Grok 4.6 is cheaper at $1.35 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $1.68 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Grok 4.6 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.58s compared with 0.68s.

Which model has a larger context window?

Grok-4 has a larger context window, supporting 1M tokens compared with 500K tokens.

Veredicto

Tanto Grok 4.6 (Ideal para razonamiento empresarial de frontera, programación avanzada y flujos de producción, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.) como Grok-4 (Ideal para razonamiento empresarial de frontera, programación avanzada y flujos de producción, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.) destacan en producción: Grok-4 lidera en inteligencia general y programación, Grok-4 ofrece mayor velocidad de generación de tokens y Grok 4.6 resulta más rentable para cargas de trabajo API de alto volumen.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es mejor para programación y razonamiento, Grok 4.6 o Grok-4?+

En las pruebas de inteligencia compuesta y resolución de código, Grok-4 obtiene la ventaja. Puedes revisar la tabla SWE-bench y GPQA arriba para comparar cada métrica.

¿Cuánto cuesta la API de Grok 4.6 frente a Grok-4?+

Grok 4.6 cuesta $2.00 / $6.00 por millón de tokens de entrada/salida, mientras que Grok-4 cuesta $2.50 / $10.00. En costo combinado, Grok 4.6 es la opción más económica.

¿Qué modelo tiene mayor ventana de contexto y menor latencia?+

Grok 4.6 cuenta con 500K tokens de contexto frente a 1M tokens de Grok-4. En velocidad de inferencia, Grok-4 ofrece un rendimiento superior.

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Grok 4.6 vs Grok-4

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Grok 4.6

Grok-4

¿Quién gana en cada área?

Puntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas

Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta

Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens

Grok 4.6 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Grok-4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Especificaciones Técnicas

Grok 4.6 vs Grok-4: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)

Veredicto

Preguntas frecuentes

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