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Grok alternatives, graded

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6 of the 8 assistants on the record score higher than Grok's 7 of 19 (grade D): Claude (13½, B), Gemini (12½, B−), ChatGPT (12, C+) lead the ranking. Every grade is read from the maker's own page, checked 22 October 2026 to 3 November 2026, never from a review.

D
Grok · 7 of 19
8
assistants to compare
6
score higher
22 October 2026 to 3 November 2026
Makers' pages checked

Every assistant on the record, ranked

Grok’s own row is shaded. The six columns are the tests a person switching asks about first; each product page has every test, with the maker’s line and the source.

assistantGradeRemembersExport memoryStop trainingExport chatsDelete accountPrice public
Claude#1 · AnthropicB13½/19
Gemini#2 · GoogleB−12½/19
ChatGPT#3 · OpenAIC+12/19
Mistral Vibe#4 · MistralC+12/19
Perplexity#5 · PerplexityC10½/19
Copilot#6 · MicrosoftC10/19
Grok#7 · xAI · this oneD7/19
DeepSeek#8 · DeepSeekF5/19
Meta AI#9 · MetaF5/19
  • Remembers · Does it remember across a new chat?
  • Export memory · Can you export its memory?
  • Stop training · Can you stop your chats training its models?
  • Export chats · Can you export all your chats from it yourself?
  • Delete account · Can you delete your whole account with it yourself?
  • Price public · Does it put every plan's price on a public page?

Grok alternatives, by what matters

6 assistants that let you stop your chats training the model

  1. B Claude
  2. B− Gemini
  3. C+ ChatGPT
  4. C+ Mistral Vibe
  5. C Perplexity
  6. F DeepSeek

Grok passes this test too.

The one assistant that let you export all your chats

  1. C Copilot

Grok's grade on this test: partly.

What xAI changed lately

  1. The Grok product page no longer mentions memory across chats; it lists reasoning, coding, image generation and document analysis. xAI's consumer FAQ, the Grok help FAQ and the user guide do not mention memory either, so the Scorecard's docs grade for Grok on remembering across a new chat moved from yes to no.

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  2. xAI retired the grok-imagine-image-quality API model on 2 November 2026, after a 60-day notice that began on 2 September. Requests to it, and to grok-imagine-image-pro (redirected to it in May), are now served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at the low quality setting, which costs $0.01 per image less at every resolution: $0.04 per 1K image and $0.06 per 2K image, plus $0.01 per input image on edits. The old names keep resolving, so no code change is needed; grok-imagine-image (1.0) is not affected.

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  3. Weekly usage limits on Grok Bot on X were cut. Over the weekend of 31 October and 1 November 2026 users reported allowances showing as fully used without overnight use, some going from 50% to 100%, and on 1 November Elon Musk replied that it was not a glitch: "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." No new limit figures or affected plans have been published.

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Every change from xAI, dated →

Alternatives to the others

The whole shelf: The Scorecard. How the grades are made: How we grade. No maker pays for a place or a grade.