Grok 4.6 beats GPT-5.6 Sol on coding agent efficiency, 35% lower cost
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-16
The Hype's experiment shows Grok 4.6 outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol on three Game of Thrones castle builds, using 201 model calls and $13.11 vs 338 calls and $20.18. Key insight: 93-98% of input tokens were cache reads, with prompt caching cutting costs 4x.
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