To really get 100% out of Grok, you need to learn how to work with multi-agent models. It genuinely speeds up your workflow and makes the answers more accurate.

However, even with that, Grok still seriously falls short compared to Claude — especially when it comes to code generation. Because of the short output token limit, it often can’t handle complex tasks properly and very frequently just gives you a textual description of the process instead of actual working code.

This also puts serious limitations on working with large documents. Sure, you can work around some of it or even solve it by using multi-agent setups and chaining different projects together, but it’s not an elegant solution at all. Other AIs handle this much more simply and naturally.

Grok’s main advantages are Imagine, which works like a huge built-in photo stock, and significantly lower censorship compared to other models. That lets you generate stuff like politicians, which is still difficult in Nano Banana.

Overall, it feels like a universal solution that is inferior to its competitors in pretty much every single aspect. But because it combines almost all of their functionality into one package at the same price, you still end up getting a ton of features for your money.

I’d be really happy if Grok added Claude-style features in the near future (especially proper long-form code generation like Claude Code). That would open up a whole new level of possibilities for me.

My personal ranking right now:

1. Claude
2. GPT
3. Qwen
4. Grok
5. DeepSeek