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Grok 4.6
by xAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDAGENTSCODING HELPFAST ANSWERSWRITING HELP
RANKED #1 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #1 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 7.6 · 72,876 VOICES ·
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A fast multimodal AI designed to help with coding, daily tasks, and general questions.
HAPPY9.4
5.1k mentions
SAD5.6
2.8k mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 72,995 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 4.6 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 top tier multimodal coding and reasoning locally on standard consumer hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
GLM 5.3 FlashZhipuHigh speed multimodal intelligence and agentic coding at a fraction of the cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE12.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekBudget friendly visual reasoning and fast multi step agent coding workflows.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Grok 4.6 for its quick answers, accurate results, and strong coding help that offers good value. However, some complain about occasional refusals, service limits, and costs adding up during heavy use.
29576 POSTS · 43300 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · X · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · DEV.TO · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (122 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (103 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (51 mentions)
- Usually gives correct answers (26 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (90 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (89 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
122 thumbs up · 48 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
103 thumbs up · 52 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
9 thumbs up · 89 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
3 thumbs up · 90 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
51 thumbs up · 16 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMOSTLY POSITIVE
26 thumbs up · 19 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
18 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- Long conversationsPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM X >
“The best thing about the SuperGrok Heavy subscription is that you get insanely high individual usage limits across the G.”
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“Supergrok is the worst value for money subscription right now.”
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“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 👀 wins hands down @Gemini @C.”
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“Gotta love how Grok censors the body, but puts her in a sexy styl.”
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“fix(1544): list every merge-paper root-key conflict in one refuse [C64, Grok 4.6, high].”
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“Grok 4.6 Build is so good & so fast!”
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“Opus is so slow compared to Grok 4.6, it's getting more and more annoying to use.”
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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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“Chat GPT, Grok, Copilot hallucinate.”
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“Whoa, Grok 4.6 is really good at writing Elixir Fast too Just upgraded to get more tokens.”
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- 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