Same-prompt test: Grok 4.7 takes 32 min at $8.14 while free SWE 2 finishes in 15 min
iamfakhrealam · x · 2026-09-22
A developer ran the same prompt at the highest reasoning setting through Grok 4.7 and SWE 2, with starkly different results:
- Grok 4.7: took 32 minutes and cost $8.14
- SWE 2: took 15 minutes and cost $0
The author was surprised by how well the free model performed and puzzled by what Grok was doing, opening a poll on which output was better. A notable signal that a free model can beat a paid frontier model on both speed and cost for the same task.
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