SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 API Pricing — $2.00 Input / $6.00 Output per 1M Tokens

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 by xAI — $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 500K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$6.00
Provider
xAI
Context window
500K tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$0.850$25.50
Small app (1K/day)$5.00$150.00
Mid-scale (10K/day)$70.00$2100.00
Large scale (100K/day)$1600.00$48000.00
Model ID: x-ai/grok-4.6
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

About SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 is an LLM developed by xAI. Input costs $2.00 per million tokens and output costs $6.00 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 500K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $2.00 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $6.00 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $5.0000
  • Monthly cost: $150.000

Accessing SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is x-ai/grok-4.6.

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