Grok 4.6 in Copilot Two Days After Launch — the Picker That Moves Tokens
xAI said Grok 4.6 is live in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, cloud agents, and the Copilot CLI, with some businesses needing to enable the model in Copilot settings. API pricing remains $2/$6 per million tokens. Distribution ship — not a second model GA.
Copilot is still the default editor agent for a large share of professional developers. Putting Grok 4.6 — the checkpoint xAI says ties GPT-5.6 Sol at 61 on Artificial Analysis — next to OpenAI and Anthropic in that picker is the distribution that actually moves coding tokens.
xAI posted that Grok 4.6 is now live in GitHub Copilot for developers in VS Code and across GitHub, including cloud agents and the Copilot CLI. Users pick “Grok 4.6” in the model picker; some businesses and enterprises must enable it in Copilot settings. The same post restates xAI console pricing: $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens. This is a distribution ship — two days after the August 12 model GA — not a second model launch.
What shipped
| Item | Detail (x.ai/news/grok-4-6-github-copilot) |
|---|---|
| Surfaces | GitHub Copilot in VS Code, cloud agents, Copilot CLI |
| Enablement | Model picker; some biz/enterprise tenants need an admin flag |
| API | xAI console still $2 / $6 per 1M |
Same pattern as Grok 4.5 (Jul 8 launch) then Grok 4.5 in GitHub Copilot (Jul 28): model first, Copilot second, separate slugs.
Limits
- Default vs opt-in inside enterprise tenants is unsettled.
- Whether Microsoft prices Grok as a premium Copilot model is not in the post.
- No new independent bench for Copilot-served Grok vs first-party API.