Posted by pretext 16 hours ago
Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off.
60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable
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Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off.
60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable
Anyone cares to subscribe here is a link:
Benchmarks aren't everything, but if you're going to contrast performance against a selection of top models, then pick the top models? I've seen a handful of companies do this, including big labs, where they conveniently leave out significant competitors, and it comes across as insecure and petty.
Claude has better tooling and UX. xAI isn't nearly as focused on the app and the ecosystem of tools around it and so on, so a lot of things end up more or less an afterthought, with nearly all the focus going toward the AI development.
$300/month is a lot, and it's not as fast as other models, so it should be easy to sell GLM as almost as good as the very expensive, slow, Grok Heavy, or so on.
GLM has 128k, grok 4 heavy 256k, etc.
Nitpicking aside, the fact that they've got an open model that is just a smidge less capable than the multibillion dollar state of the art models is fantastic. Should hopefully see GLM 4.7 showing up on the private hosting platforms before long. We're still a year or two from consumer gear starting to get enough memory and power to handle the big models. Prosumer mac rigs can get up there, quantized, but quantized performance is rickety at best, and at that point you look at the costs of self hosting vs private hosts vs $200/$300 a month (+ continual upgrades)
Frontier labs only have a few years left where they can continue to charge a pile for the flagship heavyweight models, I don't think most people will be willing to pay $300 for a 5 or 10% boost over what they can run locally.
I do appreciate their desire to be the most popular coding model on OpenRouter and offer Grok4-Fast for free. That's a notable step down from frontier models but fine for lots of bug fixing. I've put hundreds of millions of tokens through it.
I’ve tried it with coding, writing and instructions following. The only thing it excels at currently and searching for things across the web is+ twitter.
Otherwise, I would never use it for anything else. At coding, it always includes an error, when it patches it, it introduces another one. When writing creative text and had to follow instructions, it hallucinates a lot.
Based on my experience, I am suspecting XAI for bench-maxing on Artificial Analysis because no way Grok 4 expert performs close to Gpt-5.2, Claude sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3 pro
I don’t know if the hallucinations extend to code, but it makes me unwilling to consider using it.
I do expect them to pull ahead, given the resources and the allocation of developers at xAI, so maybe at some point it'll be clearly worth paying $300 a month compared to the prices of other flagships. For now, private hosts and ChatGPT Pro are the best bang for your buck.
The absence of guard rails is a good thing - what happened with mechahitler was a series of feature rollouts that combined with Pliny trending, resulting in his latest grok jailbreak ending up in the prompt, followed by the trending mechahitler tweets, and so on. They did a whole lot of new things all at once with the public facing bot, and didn't consider unintended consequences.
I'd rather a company that has a mechahitler incident and laughs it off than a company that pre-emptively clutches pearls on behalf of their customers, or smugly insists that we should just trust them, and that their vision of "safety" is best for everyone.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/grok-says-elon-musk-is-bet...
It's really not. I have no axe to grind with Elon, but X and it's reputation for "oops we made a mistake" critical failures is a no-go. I don't feel safe signing up to try whatever their free model when their public image is nonstop obvious mistakes. There is no world where I'm bringing those models to work, and explaining to HR why my web traffic included a Mechahitler response (or worse).
Anthropic and OpenAI are Silicon Valley circuses in a relative sense, but they take this stuff seriously and make genuine advancements. XAI could disappear tomorrow and the human race would not lose any irreplaceable research. It's a dedicated fart-huffing division on the best of days, I hope you're not personally invested in their success.
I think these types of comments should just be forbidden from Hacker News.
It's all feelycraft and impossible to distinguish from motivated speech.