xAI Grok Pricing in 2026: Every Model and Plan Explained

xAI’s Grok has positioned itself as a cost-efficiency leader among frontier-class models. This guide covers the 2026 API rates and consumer plans.

Last checked: September 8, 2026, against docs.x.ai for API rates. Consumer plan prices are cross-checked against multiple pricing trackers; confirm on x.ai before budgeting.

Grok API pricing by model

Rates are per million tokens, input/output. The lineup now uses tiered context pricing: rates double once your prompt context exceeds 200K tokens.

Model	Context	Input under 200K	Output under 200K	Input 200K+	Output 200K+
grok-4.6	500K	$2.00	$6.00	$4.00	$12.00
grok-4.5	500K	$2.00	$6.00	$4.00	$12.00
grok-4.3	1M	$1.25	$2.50	$2.50	$5.00
grok-4.20 (reasoning / multi-agent)	1M	$1.25	$2.50	$2.50	$5.00
grok-build-0.1	256K	$1.00	$2.00	$2.00	$4.00

grok-4.6 at $2/$6 matches Claude Sonnet 5’s input price with a 500K context window. Watch the tiered pricing though: past 200K tokens of context, the rate doubles to $4/$12, which matters for long-document and agent workloads.

grok-4.3 remains the value pick at $1.25/$2.50 with a full 1M context window, and the new coding-oriented grok-build-0.1 is the cheapest xAI model at $1/$2, priced to compete with Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna for high-volume automation.

Older model pricing

Earlier versions of this page listed Grok 4.1 Fast at $0.20/$0.50 with a 2M context and a “Grok 4 Heavy” API row. Neither appears on xAI’s current model list; if your workload depends on 4.1 Fast, confirm availability and current rates on docs.x.ai directly.

Grok consumer and team plans

Plan	Price	Notes
Free	$0	Rate-limited Grok on grok.com and X
SuperGrok Lite	$10/mo	Entry tier
SuperGrok	$30/mo ($300/yr)	Standard full-access tier
X Premium+	$40/mo	Bundles Grok with X platform perks
SuperGrok Plus	$100/mo ($1,000/yr)	New mid-tier since June; higher limits, priority access
SuperGrok Heavy	$300/mo	Top tier, most compute
Grok Business	$30/user/mo	Team billing, admin controls

The change since June is SuperGrok Plus at $100/month, a new tier that landed in August between SuperGrok ($30) and Heavy ($300). It exists for people who kept running out of usage on the $30 plan but could not justify a jump to $300. xAI’s site blocks automated checks, so these consumer prices are sourced from pricing trackers checked September 8, 2026; verify on x.ai before you subscribe.

Which Grok option should you pick?

For developers, grok-4.3 is hard to beat on cost for large-context work, with grok-4.6 when you need the current flagship, still cheap by frontier standards under 200K context. For consumers, SuperGrok at $30/month remains the standard tier; Plus at $100 is for heavy daily users; X Premium+ makes sense if you already want the X perks.

The trade-off to weigh is capability: Grok’s coding-benchmark scores trail the leaders (its SWE-bench numbers vary widely by scaffold), so if your workload is hard coding, compare against Claude and GPT before committing on price alone. And factor the 200K surcharge into any agent workload estimate; long-running agents blow past that threshold routinely.

FAQ

How much does the Grok API cost in 2026? grok-4.6 and 4.5 at $2/$6 under 200K context ($4/$12 above), grok-4.3 at $1.25/$2.50 (1M context), grok-build-0.1 at $1/$2.

What is the cheapest Grok model? grok-build-0.1 at $1/$2 per million tokens; grok-4.3 is the best general-purpose value.

How much are the Grok plans? SuperGrok Lite $10, SuperGrok $30 ($300/yr), SuperGrok Plus $100 ($1,000/yr), X Premium+ $40, SuperGrok Heavy $300, Grok Business $30/user.

Does Grok have a free tier? Yes, rate-limited on grok.com and X; exact limits are unpublished and change often.

This page is part of our full AI model pricing and comparison guide. See also Claude pricing, OpenAI GPT pricing, and Gemini pricing, or jump to the cheapest AI model.

Verify against the official xAI API models and pricing page and x.ai for consumer plans.