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Grok 4.3
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDWRITING HELPCODING HELPPROBLEM SOLVINGPAID SUBSCRIPTION
RANKED #147 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #192 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.3 · 1,649 VOICES ·
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A dependable AI helper designed to assist with writing, coding, and problem solving.
HAPPY5.8
46 mentions
SAD9.2
57 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,749 voices in this window
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 WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for strong multimodal reasoning and code without sending data to third parties.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekPick for fast visual recognition and lightweight agentic tasks at minimal cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST❤️ CROWD FAVORITE5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.8Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAIPick for budget-friendly visual reasoning and long-context multimodal tasks.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY⚡ FAST5.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Grok 4.3 stable and dependable with improved intelligence, though some complain about its price and a tendency to make things up.
1089 POSTS · 560 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · X · GITHUB · BLUESKY · DEV.TO · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (5 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (2 mentions)
- People find it expensive (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
3 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- PriceA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Help with codeMOSTLY 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.
Gemini 3.7 Flash> 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