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Grok 4.6
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPFAST ANSWERSAGENTSWRITING HELP
RANKED #1 OF 266 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #1 OF 6,544 · VIBE SCORE 7.7 · 40,868 VOICES
A fast, capable AI assistant built for heavy coding, everyday tasks, and building projects.
HAPPY9.5
3.2k mentions
SAD5.5
924 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 63,940 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 4.6 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 MaverickMetaPick it for top-tier multimodal reasoning and coding help that rivals closed models.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
Kimi K3MoonshotChoose it for near-frontier multimodal quality and long-horizon agentic workflows.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.1k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Grok 4.6 for its fast, accurate answers and strong coding skills that make it worth the price. However, some complain about occasional refusals, outages, and how quickly usage costs can add up.
14186 POSTS · 26682 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · X · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · DEV.TO · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (147 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (137 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (132 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (74 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (87 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (80 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
147 thumbs up · 72 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
137 thumbs up · 37 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightPEOPLE LOVE THIS
132 thumbs up · 36 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
22 thumbs up · 80 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
6 thumbs up · 87 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
74 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
33 thumbs up · 18 thumbs down
- Long conversationsPEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM X >
“🚨Grok 4.6 beats DeepSeek V4 pro on EVERYTHING at a lower cost”
- FROM X >
“grok 4.6 spending $55 on 8.6 million tokens shows that cheap intelligence can still create an expensive job: finding the.”
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“Grok is great at writing code.”
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“@0x0SojalSec just finished a long coding session with @grok 4.6 cancelled my claude code sub immediately!!!.”
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“GLM 5.3 is the newest member to the cost-accuracy pareto for Terminal-Bench 3.0, replacing Grok 4.6 Impressive improveme.”
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“Grok 4.6 as the leader for the intelligence and uncensored capabilities.”
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“Grok 4.6 Build is so good & so fast!”
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“@ericzakariasson It’s a bit expensive, in my experience, Grok 4.6 High Fast uses a bit over 2x what 4.5 High Fast would .”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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Cursor is now part of @SpaceX. Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help
- X · 2026-08-15 · 9234 UPVOTES@TheChiefNerd Worth trying Grok 4.6. Fable 5 is smarter overall, but Grok is much faster and lower cost. Grok 4.7 has a
@TheChiefNerd Worth trying Grok 4.6. Fable 5 is smarter overall, but Grok is much faster and lower cost. Grok 4.7 has a
- X · 2026-08-14 · 8481 UPVOTESGrok 4.6 will work best with the Grok Build harness. The experience will be significantly worse without it, so best to e
Grok 4.6 will work best with the Grok Build harness. The experience will be significantly worse without it, so best to e
- X · 2026-08-14 · 3539 UPVOTESGrok 4.6 ranks #1 on CursorBench for real-world coding
Grok 4.6 ranks #1 on CursorBench for real-world coding
- X · 2026-08-14 · 2698 UPVOTESTry Grok 4.6 image & video understanding, it’s a major upgrade!
Try Grok 4.6 image & video understanding, it’s a major upgrade!
- X · 2026-08-14 · 2668 UPVOTESBig day! Cursor has officially joined SpaceX. I’m proud of our team and what we’ve accomplished so far. Our momentum is
Big day! Cursor has officially joined SpaceX. I’m proud of our team and what we’ve accomplished so far. Our momentum is
- X · 2026-08-15 · 2388 UPVOTESI ditched Unreal for AI. Kaiju Engine is a completely AI written replacement. To prove it was ready for production, I te
I ditched Unreal for AI. Kaiju Engine is a completely AI written replacement. To prove it was ready for production, I te
- X · 2026-08-14 · 1631 UPVOTES🔴 So Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking. - It’s permanent and not removab
🔴 So Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking. - It’s permanent and not removab
- X · 2026-08-16 · 1216 UPVOTESOk Grok 4.6 is getting scary good. Games. 3D worlds. Game trailers. Even real-world 3D prints. 10 wild examples:
Ok Grok 4.6 is getting scary good. Games. 3D worlds. Game trailers. Even real-world 3D prints. 10 wild examples:
- X · 2026-08-18 · 1168 UPVOTESWTF, THIS GUY FROM CURSOR GAVE GROK BOT A PILE OF CLOTHES HIS SISTER WAS TOO LAZY TO SELL – AND IT HANDLED THE ENTIRE SA
WTF, THIS GUY FROM CURSOR GAVE GROK BOT A PILE OF CLOTHES HIS SISTER WAS TOO LAZY TO SELL – AND IT HANDLED THE ENTIRE SA
- X · 2026-08-14 · 1070 UPVOTESWow, Grok 4.6 making 3D print files for the real world! I told Grok I needed a spacer to be able to use the phone charge
Wow, Grok 4.6 making 3D print files for the real world! I told Grok I needed a spacer to be able to use the phone charge
- X · 2026-08-21 · 1032 UPVOTESMy honest experiments after 10 days on DGX spark - I have cancelled my frontier subscriptions temporarily. I was spendin
My honest experiments after 10 days on DGX spark - I have cancelled my frontier subscriptions temporarily. I was spendin