Grok 4.6 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock One Week After Launch
xAI announced Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at the same $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per million tokens as its first-party API, with a 500k context window and low, medium, high and xhigh reasoning effort.
Correction / update, October 14, 2026: Removed unverified contract and historical platform claims; the announcement supports model availability, supported regions, context, effort and pricing.
Grok 4.6’s Bedrock release gives AWS developers another route to the model, one week after its first-party launch.
xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock as general availability for developers in supported AWS Regions. Pricing matches the lab API: $2 input / $0.50 cached input / $6 output per million tokens. Context 500k; reasoning effort low, medium, high, xhigh. This is cloud distribution of the August 12 model.
What shipped#
| Item | Detail (x.ai/news primary) |
|---|---|
| Surface | Amazon Bedrock, all developers in supported Regions |
| Model | Grok 4.6 (long-running agents, interactive/visual work) |
| Context / effort | 500k; low / medium / high / xhigh |
| Price | $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per 1M tokens |
This update adds 4.6 specifically, one week after the flagship model’s August 12 launch.
Limits#
- Supported Regions only; not a global Bedrock GA claim.
- No independent latency or quality board for the Bedrock port vs first-party API.
- Whether Google’s Enterprise Agent Platform prices the same $2/$6 is open.
Sources#
- xAI: Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock (August 19, 2026)
- xAI: Introducing Grok 4.6 (August 12, 2026)
- Times of AI coverage of OpenAI Daybreak on AWS Bedrock (August 11) and the Grok 4.6 launch (August 12).