HEAD TO HEAD

Step 1 vs Discovery vs Grok 4.6 vs Community

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 1DiscoveryCommunitySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Step 1 x	Discovery x	Grok 4.6 x	Community x
VIBE SCORE	7.4	7.6	7.7	7.3
VOICES	3,690	9,479	41,211	1,820
RANK	#11	#3	#1	#18
CATEGORY	Text	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	N/A	$2.00 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	N/A	$6.00 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	Refuses or lectures more than people like	People find it expensive

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HEAD TO HEAD

Step 1 vs Discovery vs Grok 4.6 vs Community

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 1DiscoveryCommunitySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Step 1 x	Discovery x	Grok 4.6 x	Community x
VIBE SCORE	7.4	7.6	7.7	7.3
VOICES	3,690	9,479	41,211	1,820
RANK	#11	#3	#1	#18
CATEGORY	Text	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	N/A	$2.00 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	N/A	$6.00 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	Refuses or lectures more than people like	People find it expensive