# SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.6 as cheaper rival to OpenAI and Anthropic 2026-08-13T20:09:43+00:00 | Technology | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6 on August 12, claiming its model matches leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a lower cost. The company says the model excels at agentic tasks, research, coding, software development and analysis, by working through many steps. Artificial Analysis places Grok 4.6 close to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol on its Intelligence Index, though early tests do not show it consistently beating top rivals. Pricing is a key differentiator: about $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, far cheaper than many frontier models. The model was trained longer using synthetic data and refined with reinforcement learning. It is available through Cursor and Grok Build. Early users report strong performance on long coding tasks, though some say it still falls short in certain areas. ## Coverage - newindianexpress.com Tags: AI agents, benchmarks, coding, Grok 4.6, pricing, SpaceXAI Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/spacexai-launches-grok-4-6-as-cheaper-rival-to-openai-and-anthropic/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/spacexai-launches-grok-4-6-as-cheaper-rival-to-openai-and-anthropic/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.