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Grok vs ChatGPT
Grok (xAI) vs ChatGPT (OpenAI) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-08 and 2026-05-20.
Grok
xAI
X-integrated chatbot with an irreverent personality and real-time tweet access.
Pick Grok over ChatGPT if you need: Real-time news or X/Twitter analysis.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used AI chatbot, powered by GPT-4o and GPT-5.
Pick ChatGPT over Grok if you need: Writing or Coding.
Full comparison table
Dimension
Grok
xAI
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Basics
Company
xAI
OpenAI
Released
2023-11-04
2022-11-30
Latest Version
Grok 4
GPT-5
Capabilities
Text Generation
8.0
10.0
Code Generation
8.0
9.0
Image Understanding
8.0
9.0
Web Browsing
9.0
9.0
Multimodal
8.0
10.0
Long Context
8.0
8.0
Reasoning
8.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
Real-time newsX/Twitter analysisCasual chat
WritingCodingResearchBrainstorming
Best For
X power usersJournalists tracking trends
General usersWritersStudentsMarketers
Pricing
Free Tier
Limited Grok 4 access in X
GPT-5 mini access, limited messages
Paid Plan
X Premium+: $40/month
Plus: $20/month
API Pricing
From $3/M input tokens
From $1.25/M input tokens (gpt-5)
Enterprise
Custom
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
86
91
HumanEval (Coding)
88
92
GSM8K (Math)
92
95
Context Window
128K tokens
256K tokens
Languages
English
high
high
Chinese
medium
high
Multilingual
medium
high
Editorial
Overall Score
8.4
9.5
Value for Money
8.0
9.0
Accuracy
8.3
9.0
Ease of Use
9.0
10.0
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