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Grok 4.3
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDWRITING HELPCODING HELPPROBLEM SOLVINGPAID SUBSCRIPTION
RANKED #226 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #346 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 4.4 · 859 VOICES
A dependable, multi-purpose AI assistant designed for writing, coding, and general tasks.
HAPPY5.8
16 mentions
SAD9.2
27 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,311 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. xAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Grok 4.3 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaTop-tier open-weight multimodal reasoning and coding on par with closed models.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralFast, lightweight multimodal model with configurable reasoning and strong coding.💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE🪶 RUNS ON LESS922 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
Kimi K3MoonshotFrontier-level multimodal reasoning and massive context window for complex tasks.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Grok 4.3 stable and capable, but note that it can make things up and comes with a pricey subscription.
483 POSTS · 376 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · X · BLUESKY · GITHUB · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- Stable and dependable (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (6 mentions)
- People find it expensive (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- PriceA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Grok 4.3 achieves higher overall intelligence over 4.20 with less of a cost, at the price of slightly higher hallucination rate..”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Grok 4.3.
Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-05-04 · 1950 UPVOTESA Twitter user tricked Grok to send 200k USD to him and it worked
A Twitter user tricked Grok to send 200k USD to him and it worked
- REDDIT · 2026-05-05 · 1508 UPVOTESX user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code
X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 1331 UPVOTESResearchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
- REDDIT · 2026-06-17 · 1077 UPVOTESPentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says
Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says
- LEMMY · 2026-07-06 · 1055 UPVOTESGrok about to get another lobotomy for pointing out his master is a moron
Grok about to get another lobotomy for pointing out his master is a moron
- REDDIT · 2026-05-21 · 944 UPVOTESGoogle's latest creation: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs all
Google's latest creation: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs all
- REDDIT · 2026-06-12 · 810 UPVOTESTo all the real ones still sharing their prompts and workflows — I raise my glass 🍾🍷
To all the real ones still sharing their prompts and workflows — I raise my glass 🍾🍷
- REDDIT · 2026-06-25 · 797 UPVOTESHalf of Grok's traffic is NSFW
Half of Grok's traffic is NSFW
- X · 2026-08-14 · 655 UPVOTESbe elon >"we are in the Singularity" >goes ALL IN: AI hardware & software >january 2026 >anthropic cuts your claude acc
be elon >"we are in the Singularity" >goes ALL IN: AI hardware & software >january 2026 >anthropic cuts your claude acc
- LEMMY · 2026-05-13 · 563 UPVOTESStudy finds GPT and Grok more likely to favour sponsored answers over users’ best interests
Study finds GPT and Grok more likely to favour sponsored answers over users’ best interests
- REDDIT · 2026-04-18 · 500 UPVOTESgrok 4.3 beta: musk's ($300/month) megaphone
grok 4.3 beta: musk's ($300/month) megaphone
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-05-01 · 405 UPVOTESGrok 4.3
Grok 4.3