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Misleading because much of Grok's traffic is through their free endpoint. Title should be:

    Grok is the most popular free cloud model on OpenRouter
And even then this wouldn't matter because most devs don't use OpenRouter (commissions!, incompatible API in edge cases, etc.), and most LLM enthusiasts who want to run free models do it on their own machine.

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Edit: Most → Much





> most of Grok's traffic is through their free endpoint

https://openrouter.ai/x-ai

Code Fast 1: 100B

Grok 4 (free): 84.6B




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