Every time I get excited about Grok’s performance on benchmarks and demo videos, I test it myself and end up disappointed.
I'll give this one a try with a grain of salt and lowering my levels of expectations
I'll give this one a try with a grain of salt and lowering my levels of expectations
- It doesn't seem available in EU (?)
- Using a VPN seems to sort of fix it, but it's way slower than I expected, when everyone was praising it, it feels like the speed is slowly ramping up
- Cost is $2/$6 for <200k context only, above that, cost is $4/$12
- GLM-5.2 still seems smarter, faster and much cheaper:
https://aibenchy.com/compare/x-ai-grok-4-5-medium/z-ai-glm-5...With things like a fly machine or whatever, you might even be able to run it for free