Decision snapshot
Where this family fits
- Suitable for
- Coding, agentic tasks, knowledge work, and workflows that intentionally enable xAI-hosted search or execution tools.
- Access
- Hosted API · Product access
- Capabilities
- General & Reasoning · Coding · Vision & Multimodal · Agents & Tool Use
- Weights
- The current Grok API pages describe hosted endpoints and do not offer downloadable weights.
Decision boundary
The base model does not automatically contain realtime information. Search tools must be enabled, billed, and evaluated separately from the model response.
Selected current releases
Exact names and model IDs
This is a maintained selection from official sources, not a complete catalog. Provider status labels are preserved instead of converted into a Richbay score.
| Release | Provider status | Access and modality | Context | Weights / license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Grok 4.6 ↗grok-4.6 | Current flagship | xAI APIText + image input → text | 500K tokens | Hosted service · no weights listed |
Grok 4.5 ↗grok-4.5 | Current API listing | xAI APISee current model card | 500K tokens | Hosted service · no weights listed |
Grok 4.3 ↗grok-4.3 | Current API listing | xAI APISee current model card | 1M tokens | Hosted service · no weights listed |