| Category | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs |
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| In one sentence | Elon Musk’s assistant that reads X in real time and prides itself on not mincing words. | The Chinese AI that rattled Wall Street: free, open and dirt-cheap for developers, with privacy small print. |
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| Free plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
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| Price | Free / Plus $8/mo / Premium $30/mo | Free · API from $0.15/M tokens |
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| Plans and pricing | - Free $0
- Plus $8/month ($80/year)
- Premium $30/month ($300/year)
- Super $100/month ($1,000/year)
- Ultra $200/month ($2,000/year)
| - Web chat and app €0
- API · deepseek-flash (V4.1-Flash) $0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens (input / output, peak)
- API · deepseek-v4-pro $1.32 / $3.96 per million tokens (peak)
- API · Search / Fetch $0.75 per 1,000 requests
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| AIAO score | 93/100 | 96/100 best |
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| Languages | No verified data | No verified data |
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| Where to use it | Web (grok.com), iOS, Android, built into X and Tesla cars; Grok Build and Cursor for coding. | Web, iOS, Android and API; DeepSeek Harness (developer preview). |
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| Pros | - Real-time access to what is being posted on X.
- Grok 4.7 is a frontier coding model with a competitive API ($2 / $6 per million tokens).
- Grok Imagine turns an idea into images and short videos in seconds.
- Premium ($30/month) bundles SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, previously about $90 combined.
| - Free web chat and apps, no subscription.
- Open weights under the MIT licence: run it on your own server without sending anything to China.
- One of the cheapest APIs: Flash at $0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens at peak and half off-peak.
- 1M-token context and an API compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic formats.
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| Cons | - Serious content controversies and an open EU investigation (DSA).
- Not reliable as a fact-checker: it has endorsed viral hoaxes.
- Privacy failures (shared chats indexed by Google in 2025, repositories uploaded by Grok Build in 2026).
| - Sensitive privacy: data in China and no simple training toggle.
- Censorship on sensitive political topics.
- Regulatory blocks and complaints (Italy, Germany, consumer groups) and very fast model changes in the API.
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| Use cases | - Heavy X users, journalists and community managers following the news (always cross-checking); developers who use Cursor; creators of images and short videos.
- On X, reply to a post mentioning @grok to get the context, but treat it as a starting point: ask for sources and check them before sharing anything.
| - Developers and companies wanting a powerful API at the lowest cost; students and curious users who want a free assistant for non-sensitive data; teams that prefer to deploy an open model on their own infrastructure.
- If you use the API for long jobs (summarising hundreds of documents, batch translation), schedule them off-peak and pay half. For personal or company data, run the open model locally or with a European provider.
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| Privacy and data | Outside Europe, X uses posts and Grok interactions for training by default (turn off at x.com/settings/grok_settings). In the EU, X committed in 2024 not to use European users’ personal data for that training. | Its policy (February 2026) says data is collected and stored in China and what you type may be used for training; opting out is by email and there is an EU representative. Alternative: its open models run locally or with a European provider. |
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