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 | Gemini 3.1 Pro google/gemini-3.1-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Family | Grok 4 | Gemini 3 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 500,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 65,536 tok |
| Released | 2026-08-12 | 2026-05-22 |
| Input price | $1.00 /1M | $2.00 /1M |
| Output price | $1.00 /1M | $12.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | $0.200 /1M |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | — | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | yes |
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.
Google's most intelligent Gemini model with improved reasoning, a medium thinking level, and a 1M token context window.
# 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 Gemini 3.1 Pro — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemini-3.1-pro",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)