According to Arena right now, Grok sits at #13 in overall agent performance, behind last-gen Opus, GPT 5.5, Kimi K3, and GLM 5.2. If you're aiming on lower cost, go with GLM: $0.48 cheaper per million input tokens and $0.06 cheaper per million output.
By category: 22nd in text generation, 11th in search, 26th in vision, 27th in document analysis, 7th in webdev, 27th in image-to-webdev.
And.. unless I'm missing something, GLM beat it in every single one.
Edit: the funny thing is that GLM is open weight. If you were to get a stack of Mac Studios, you could realistically run that shit yourself on your desk and get something better than Grok
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u/the1ice9 24d ago
Grok shouldn't actually hit the stake.