# Grok 4.6 on Bedrock a Week After Launch — Cloud as Same-Week Entitlement

Times of AI Desk · 2026-08-19 · Work

[https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock)

> xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at the same $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per million tokens as the first-party API, with a 500k context window and low/medium/high/xhigh reasoning effort. Same pattern as OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock (August 11) — not a second model GA.

Frontier labs now treat **Bedrock** as a same-week entitlement, not a quarter-lag enterprise port. AWS customers can call **Grok 4.6** inside existing IAM, VPC, and procurement without an xAI contract.

**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 — the same pattern as **OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock** (August 11).

## 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 |

Grok models have been on Bedrock since **June 17, 2026**. This post is **4.6 specifically**, one week after the flagship launch. Not the Grok 4.6 launch (Aug 12), not Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot (Aug 14), not Grok Build GA the same day.

## 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)](https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock)
- [xAI: Introducing Grok 4.6 (August 12, 2026)](https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6)
- Times of AI: `openai-daybreak-aws-bedrock` (August 11); `spacexai-grok-4-6` (August 12)