Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent vs Grok 4.6: API price and specs

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 38% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on input price.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 58% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on output price.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 45% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent	Grok 4.6
Lowest input, per 1M	$1.00	$1.60 +60%
Median input, per 1M	$1.25	$2.00 +60%
Lowest output, per 1M	$2.00	$4.80 +140%
Median output, per 1M	$2.50	$6.00 +140%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$1.40	$2.56 +82.9%
Context	2M	2M
Max output	2M	500K +75%
Providers	10 +64.3%	28
Regions	US	GLOBAL, US
Accepts	file, image, pdf, text	file, image, image/jpeg, image/png, pdf, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	vercel	cometapi

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aihubmix, edenai, impossibl, jiekou, kilo, openrouter, poe, trustedrouter, vercel, xai

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent or Grok 4.6?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 38% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on input price. SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 58% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on output price. SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is 45% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent or Grok 4.6?

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent: 2M tokens; Grok 4.6: 2M tokens.

Where can I use both SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent and Grok 4.6?

aihubmix, edenai, impossibl, jiekou, kilo, openrouter, poe, trustedrouter, vercel, xai