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Grok 4.5
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPWRITING HELPFAST ANSWERSPAID SUBSCRIPTION
RANKED #42 OF 232 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #72 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 6.4 · 1,822 VOICES
A fast AI assistant built for writing support and programming tasks.
HAPPY8.6
165 mentions
SAD6.4
92 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,598 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 4.5 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 multimodal reasoning and coding that rivals closed models on consumer setups.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE2.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibabaIncredibly efficient MoE model that delivers agentic coding and vision on modest hardware.💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE🪶 RUNS ON LESS417 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.3Muse Glimmer 30BMetaExcellent local agentic model with robust multimodal reasoning and failure recovery.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY183 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users appreciate Grok 4.5 for its fast speeds, strong writing, and solid coding assistance. However, some find it expensive and complain about usage limits, slowdowns, and occasional refusals.
1172 POSTS · 650 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · X · GITHUB · LEMMY · DEV.TO · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (17 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (7 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (5 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (11 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (8 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (6 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
12 thumbs up · 11 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
17 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMIXED FEELINGS
6 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightPEOPLE LOVE THIS
7 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
5 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 6 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 REDDIT >
“Cursor Grok 4.5 hallucinations?.”
- FROM X >
“@fatih Been using grok 4.5 for the last month speed is already good if 4.6 has the same speed as well amazing 🤌.”
- FROM X >
“@ericzakariasson @mehulmpt I felt that grok is really slow for the last 2 days, both grok 4.5 and 4.6.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Grok 4.5.
GPT 5.6 Sol> SOURCES (12)
- 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 · 2026-07-08 · 547 UPVOTESLike how musk isn't tryanna hype grok 4.5 and being real
Like how musk isn't tryanna hype grok 4.5 and being real
- 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?
- REDDIT · 2026-07-08 · 381 UPVOTESIntroducing Grok 4.5
Introducing Grok 4.5