Grok Is Now the Most Popular Model on Openrouter
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Grok has become the most popular model on OpenRouter, but commenters question the significance of this due to factors like free usage and potential biases in the data.
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Edit: Most → Much
https://openrouter.ai/x-ai
Code Fast 1: 100B
Grok 4 (free): 84.6B
Some times I've had faster success with some of the larger Qwen3 models (480B and 235B variants). I like them in combination with the Repomix CLI to copy an entire project into context and get a response very quickly with some of the accelerated providers like Cerebras.
The biggest difference is that it isn’t sycophantic and will often tell me I am wrong when I am. This makes way more of a difference than I thought it would as I feel I can trust the results more (perhaps naively)
I still use Claude code for coding
> I've started to merge scripta and scriptb into scriptc, how would you proceed?
> I've merged the scripts into scriptc
If I have to tell the AI with every prompt not to run ahead it stops being useful..
Claude will sometimes dump very exact file content into a plan.md when I ask it to write its plan down which is annoying.
So to the contrary, ChatGPT has the ONLY moat so far. 5.8B page visits vs 148m and growing much faster on an absolute basis. https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai
I should try Grok for comparison then.
Ok, interesting - will revisit
Kilocode has been giving away free grok code fast usage.
When the price comes up for 0 I will be curious to see if this trend holds.
So, I'd imagine that is inflating the numbers just a bit lol.
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