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grok-4.6 alternatives

Compare active chat alternatives to grok-4.6, including capabilities, context, pricing, and API changes.

Alternatives to grok-4.6

The original model is active. Ranking uses shared reported capabilities and modalities, then the closest known context window, then model ID. Unknown context differences sort last. Similar metadata does not establish equivalent output quality.

Original pricing: $0.40 USD input and $0.50 USD output per 1M tokens. Original context: 500,000 tokens.

Inkling-Small

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 512000 tokens (+12000).

$0.50 USD input and $1.20 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to Inkling-Small.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. The published API interfaces are unchanged.

Compare grok-4.6 and Inkling-Small

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 400000 tokens (-100000).

$0.02 USD input and $0.04 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. The published API interfaces are unchanged.

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claude-fable-5

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 1000000 tokens (+500000).

$4.50 USD input and $30.00 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to claude-fable-5.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions, POST /v1/messages. Adjust the endpoint and request body to the selected interface.

Original request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-4.6",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Alternative request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-fable-5",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

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claude-fable-5-1

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 1000000 tokens (+500000).

$4.00 USD input and $15.00 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to claude-fable-5-1.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions, POST /v1/messages. Adjust the endpoint and request body to the selected interface.

Original request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-4.6",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Alternative request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Compare grok-4.6 and claude-fable-5-1

claude-opus-4-8

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 1000000 tokens (+500000).

$2.25 USD input and $12.19 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to claude-opus-4-8.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions, POST /v1/messages. Adjust the endpoint and request body to the selected interface.

Original request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-4.6",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Alternative request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-8",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Compare grok-4.6 and claude-opus-4-8

claude-opus-5

Matching features: Tool calling, Long context, JSON mode, Streaming, Reasoning, text input, text output.

Original features not confirmed on this alternative: None. Missing reports are unknown, not confirmed losses.

Context: 500000 → 1000000 tokens (+500000).

$2.50 USD input and $12.50 USD output per 1M tokens. Prices use the same billing mode, currency, and unit; compare the rates above.

Change the request model ID from grok-4.6 to claude-opus-5.

Original interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions. Alternative interfaces: POST /v1/chat/completions, POST /v1/messages. Adjust the endpoint and request body to the selected interface.

Original request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-4.6",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

Alternative request

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curl https://api.llm7.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM7_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-5",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }
    ]
  }'

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