Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Grok Imagine Image Quality xai/grok-imagine-image-quality | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Family | Claude 4 | |
| Modality | text | image |
| Context window | 200,000 tok | — |
| Max output | 128,000 tok | — |
| Released | 2026-05-22 | 2026-05-22 |
| Input price | $3.00 /1M | $0.050 /img |
| Output price | $15.00 /1M | — |
| Cache read | $0.300 /1M | — |
| Tools | yes | — |
| Streaming | yes | — |
| Vision | yes | — |
| JSON mode | yes | — |
| Reasoning | yes | — |
| Prompt caching | yes | — |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.
xAI's higher-fidelity text-to-image model optimized for sharper details, more accurate compositions, and stronger text rendering. Supports image editing via reference images and masks. Trades speed for quality compared to grok-imagine-image. Default output at 2k resolution.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Claude Sonnet 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Grok Imagine Image Quality — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-imagine-image-quality",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)