Overview
Grok-2 was xAI's flagship text model before Grok-3. It still delivers solid performance with real-time X/Twitter knowledge access, now available at reduced pricing for cost-conscious applications.
Context Window
32K tokens
Knowledge
Real-time (X/Twitter)
Pricing
$3-5 / 1M tokens
Access
API + X Premium
✅Strengths
- ✓Lower cost than Grok-3
- ✓Real-time X/Twitter knowledge
- ✓Good general reasoning
- ✓Distinctive personality options
- ✓Faster response times than Grok-3
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Less capable than Grok-3
- ✗Smaller context window (32K vs 128K)
- ✗No vision capabilities
- ✗Limited availability
Best Use Cases
💬 Chatbots
Customer engagement
📰 News Summaries
Trending topics
📊 Sentiment Analysis
Market monitoring
✍️ Content Creation
Social media posts
💻 Basic Coding
Simple scripts
🎯 Casual Use
Entertainment
Benchmarks
MMLU82.5%
HumanEval78.5%
GSM8K85.2%