MODEL PROFILE / EDITION 2026.09
Grok 4.6
Interactive, visually ambitious app building inside Cursor or Grok Build
Balanced model evidence score; rank 16. No rank delta is shown because there is no prior numeric snapshot.
Best for
Interactive, visually ambitious app building inside Cursor or Grok Build
Price & access
$2 in / $6 out per 1M with $0.50 cached input (75% discount); xAI charges different rates for requests exceeding the 200K context window and the exact surcharge is not published; fast variant is 2x price
Evidence summary
Two human-preference boards, first-party docs for context and price, and AA measurement - but zero published SWE-bench-family scores and an undisclosed long-context surcharge.
Edition status
No prior snapshot. Tracked in the September 2026 baseline.
Strengths
- Arena rank 11 (1637) and Design Arena rank 10 (1312) - consistently strong on both preference boards
- $2/$6 with 75%-off cached input is aggressive for a frontier model
- Explicitly tuned for long-running agents and 'more ambitious interactive and visual work'
- First-class availability in Cursor, Vercel and Cloudflare
Tradeoffs
- No published SWE-bench Pro/Verified/LiveCodeBench score at all
- 500K context is half the field's 1M norm, and pricing above 200K is undisclosed
- AA index drops from 51 to 42 across effort tiers
- TTFT 52 s at high effort
Score profile
visual 79 · code 79 · agentic 80 · debug 76 · context 74 · speed 62 · value 78
Linked evidence
Evidence source 1 ↗Evidence source 2 ↗Evidence source 3 ↗Evidence source 4 ↗Evidence source 5 ↗Evidence source 6 ↗Use the same published data, filters, and side-by-side metrics.