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Grok

X-integrated chatbot with an irreverent personality and real-time tweet access.

Visit website Last reviewed 2026-05-08
Overall8.4
Value8
Accuracy8.3

Our verdict

Grok is the obvious choice if you live on X and want an AI that can reference posts in real time. Grok 4 closed much of the quality gap with frontier models on reasoning benchmarks and added solid coding performance. Its persona is intentionally less sanitised than ChatGPT, which some users love and some find off-putting.

Its ecosystem is much smaller than OpenAI's, and the value depends heavily on whether you already pay for X Premium+. For everyone else, the case is harder to make.

Pros

  • +Real-time access to X / Twitter posts
  • +Less filtered, more personality
  • +Solid Grok 4 reasoning benchmarks
  • +Bundled with X Premium+

Cons

  • Limited utility outside X ecosystem
  • Smaller plugin/tool ecosystem
  • Pricing tied to X subscription

Capability scores

Text Generation
8
Code Generation
8
Image Understanding
8
Web Browsing
9
Multimodal
8
Long Context
8
Reasoning
8

Pricing

Free tier
Limited Grok 4 access in X
Paid plan
X Premium+: $40/month
API pricing
From $3/M input tokens
Enterprise
Custom

Best use cases

Real-time newsX/Twitter analysisCasual chat

Best for

X power usersJournalists tracking trends

How we review: all scores on this page are set by our editorial team after hands-on testing. We do not accept payment for placement and do not earn affiliate commission from the vendor of Grok. See our editorial policy for our full methodology.

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