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.
| Grok 4.6 xai/grok-4.6 | FLUX.1 Kontext [Max] black-forest-labs/flux-1-kontext-max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Black Forest Labs |
| Family | Grok 4 | FLUX |
| Modality | text | image |
| Context window | 500,000 tok | — |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | — |
| Released | 2026-08-12 | 2026-08-19 |
| Input price | $2.00 /1M | $0.080 /img |
| Output price | $6.00 /1M | — |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Streaming | yes | — |
| Vision | yes | — |
| JSON mode | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
xAI's Grok 4.6, a flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and visual work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling and structured outputs.
FLUX.1 Kontext [max] is Black Forest Labs' highest-quality Kontext model for text-to-image generation and context-aware image editing.
# 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 Grok 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try FLUX.1 Kontext [Max] — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="black-forest-labs/flux-1-kontext-max",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)