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Grok 2

xAI's first widely-available model, free on X for Premium subscribers and competitive with the GPT-4 mid-tier of its era.

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Quick facts

Released
Aug 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
Pricing not published
License
Proprietary

About Grok 2

Grok 2 brought xAI's chatbot to general availability on the X platform and via API. Most use cases have moved on to Grok 3 / 4, but it remains a reasonable default for Premium subscribers using xAI on X.

Benchmarks

Published scores from xAI's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
,
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Free on X Premium
  • Real-time data

Tracked weaknesses

  • Older generation
  • Quality below current frontier

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by xAI.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Grok 2. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Grok 2 from your code

Drop-in snippet for the xAI SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "grok-2",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Grok 2 cost?
    xAI has not published per-token API pricing for Grok 2 at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
  • What is Grok 2's context window?
    Grok 2 supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Grok 2 open source?
    No. Grok 2 is a closed-weight model, you can use it via xAI's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.
  • When was Grok 2 released?
    Grok 2 was released on Aug 13, 2024 by xAI.
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