Comment by HyperL0gi

8 hours ago

Every time I get excited about Grok’s performance on benchmarks and demo videos, I test it myself and end up disappointed.

I'll give this one a try with a grain of salt and lowering my levels of expectations

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XCSme  3 hours ago

I am trying to benchmark it now, but:

    - It doesn't seem available in EU (?)
    - Using a VPN seems to sort of fix it, but it's way slower than I expected, when everyone was praising it, it feels like the speed is slowly ramping up
    - Cost is $2/$6 for <200k context only, above that, cost is $4/$12
    - GLM-5.2 still seems smarter, faster and much cheaper:

https://aibenchy.com/compare/x-ai-grok-4-5-medium/z-ai-glm-5...

  • paradox460  1 hour ago

    Instead of a VPN, might I suggest running litellm proxy on a server in the US and connecting to that

giancarlostoro  7 hours ago

My only complaint is that a $40 plan gets you very little usage out of Grok Build. 8 hours for an entire month, that is definitely not worth $40.