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Who is using grok code and why?

• djfergus 10mo ago
  It's a 1.7 trillion token free model. Why wouldn't you try it? I've been testing free models for coding hobby projects after I burnt through way too many expensive tokens on Replit and Claude. Grok wasn't great, kept getting into loops for me. I had better results using KAT coder on opencode (also free).
  • verdverm 10mo ago
    > Why wouldn't you try it? Because the people behind it and myself having at least some standards
• joshuamcginnis 10mo ago
  According to https://openrouter.ai/rankings https://openrouter.ai/rankings, lots of people are using it - presumably because it performs well and provides value.
• bakugo 10mo ago
  Kilo Code lets people use Grok Code Fast 1 for free, using OpenRouter as the provider. And Grok 4.1 Fast was completely free directly on OpenRouter for some time after its release. So yeah, their statistics are inflated quite a bit, since most of that usage was not paid for, or at least not by the end user.
• btbuildem 10mo ago
  It was (is?) free with eg. opencode -- so, open-source coding agent + free sota model, it's hard to resist. That said, grok fast is fast, but not that great when compared to the other top tier models.