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Grok 4.5
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPWRITING HELPFAST ANSWERSGENERAL ASSISTANT
RANKED #50 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #69 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 3,449 VOICES ·
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A fast general AI assistant designed to help with everyday writing and coding tasks.
HAPPY8.5
296 mentions
SAD6.5
219 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 3,569 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 4.5 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 27BAlibabaRun a strong multimodal coding and reasoning model locally with low hardware demand.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaChoose for high-speed multimodal agentic workflows and coding at lower compute cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE8.2k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekIdeal for cost-effective multimodal reasoning and vision-based developer tasks.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users like Grok 4.5 for its fast speeds, strong writing, and solid coding help. However, some complain about its high cost, occasional refusal to answer, and integration limits.
2420 POSTS · 1029 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · X · GITHUB · LEMMY · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (15 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (23 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (7 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (9 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (5 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
15 thumbs up · 11 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
23 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
5 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
7 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Kimi K3 too expensive compared to GPT-5.6 / GLM-5.2 / Grok 4.5 ?.”
- FROM GITHUB >
“XaiModel can't send reasoningeffort='xhigh' to Grok 4.5/4.6; thinking='xhigh' is downgraded to 'high'.”
- FROM X >
“Grok 4.5 was already my favorite as it is super fast, concise and smart..”
- FROM GITHUB >
“cursor: effort-less Grok 4.5/4.6 requests are clamped to -low and refused by plans that include the model at a fixed tier.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Cursor Grok 4.5 hallucinations?.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-13 · 854 UPVOTESgrok build was uploading whole directories to google bucket
grok build was uploading whole directories to google bucket
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-07-08 · 776 UPVOTESGrok 4.5
Grok 4.5
- REDDIT · 2026-07-13 · 768 UPVOTESgrok CLI silently uploaded users data to... google cloud
grok CLI silently uploaded users data to... google cloud
- REDDIT · 2026-07-31 · 733 UPVOTESDeepSeek V4 Flash GA ranks the same as Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on DeepSWE
DeepSeek V4 Flash GA ranks the same as Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on DeepSWE
- 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
- REDDIT · 2026-07-16 · 632 UPVOTESI gave GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, and Grok 4.5 the same 100 frontend briefs—here are all 300 results
I gave GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, and Grok 4.5 the same 100 frontend briefs—here are all 300 results
- LEMMY · 2026-07-09 · 591 UPVOTESMan used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-07-15 · 590 UPVOTESGrok Build is open source
Grok Build is open source
- REDDIT · 2026-07-08 · 551 UPVOTESGrok-4.5 on par with gpt-5.5-xhigh in coding at half the cost
Grok-4.5 on par with gpt-5.5-xhigh in coding at half the cost
- REDDIT · 2026-07-08 · 550 UPVOTESGrok 4.5 is live
Grok 4.5 is live
- REDDIT · 2026-07-29 · 545 UPVOTES[Preset] Introducing: Freaky Frankenstein 5.0: Internal States! (FF5 Full Logic) 3 Presets in 1. Fully Modular. Customizable. User…
[Preset] Introducing: Freaky Frankenstein 5.0: Internal States! (FF5 Full Logic) 3 Presets in 1. Fully Modular. Customizable. User Friendly. Cache Friendly. Fromo 1-1 RP to Open World Adventures. (Claude, GLM, Kimi, Gemini, Grok, Qwen, Minimax, DS etc.)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-01 · 505 UPVOTESWhy is Elon somewhat able to compete in AI while Zuckerberg gets crushed?
Why is Elon somewhat able to compete in AI while Zuckerberg gets crushed?