Those groks are quite old by now, and not impressive.
Minimax M2.7 is a big upgrade vs 2.5, at a similar price, should easily beat the grok.
GLM 5.1 is also a great value (with coding plans), around claude sonnet capability.
But if you are doing a lot of coding your best value will be a coding plan, not pay per token. Gpt plus is a really good value and its 5.4-high model is super capable, some even consider it better than opus.
I don't think it's worth getting less than state of the art models to do actual coding, if the code will actually be used. Costs a bit more but will save you a lot of time in the end, and will produce a better quality product.
For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough usage to warrant a plan.) And Opus is only ~30 tok/s while grok-code-fast-1 is ~120. So planning with Opus and executing with grok-code-fast-1 is still on the table for me - it's good at following explicitly written plans, lightning fast.
Pay for codex and copilot.
It will be much cheaper and if you want to experiment than minimax model
Those groks are quite old by now, and not impressive. Minimax M2.7 is a big upgrade vs 2.5, at a similar price, should easily beat the grok. GLM 5.1 is also a great value (with coding plans), around claude sonnet capability.
But if you are doing a lot of coding your best value will be a coding plan, not pay per token. Gpt plus is a really good value and its 5.4-high model is super capable, some even consider it better than opus.
I don't think it's worth getting less than state of the art models to do actual coding, if the code will actually be used. Costs a bit more but will save you a lot of time in the end, and will produce a better quality product.
For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough usage to warrant a plan.) And Opus is only ~30 tok/s while grok-code-fast-1 is ~120. So planning with Opus and executing with grok-code-fast-1 is still on the table for me - it's good at following explicitly written plans, lightning fast.