How was the Grok-4.6 benchmark collected?

From 39 posts and 236 comments on r/codex sampled over the past month window.

Which categories does the Grok-4.6 report score?

Intelligence, Speed, Coding quality, Instruction following, Long context, Price / value, Reliability & uptime, Creativity & writing, Multimodal & vision, Agentic & tool use.

What are the main community pros and cons for Grok-4.6?

Top pros: The always-on agent angle is real for at least one owner: 'I gave my dot a bunch of recipes this morning and it shopped my cart for me, picked a curbside pickup slot based on when I was free in my calendar, took it all the way to the checkout screen.'; Marketing reach: the dot.com redirect to Grok Bot ('Elon did the funniest thing right now') kept the brand at the center of OpenAI's biggest launch week.. Main cons: Judged a commodity: 'No. It's nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before. I set my Hermes up months ago.'; The mention volume is trolling, not capability: 'Why didnt he buy dots.com Is he stupid?' and 'It's like buying Twitte .com' dominate the top thread..

When was the Grok-4.6 data collected?

Collected on October 7, 2026; the report was generated on October 7, 2026.

r/codex · past month

Grok-4.6

Community sentiment from 39 posts · 236 comments · collected October 7, 2026 · generated October 7, 2026

Grok-4.6 scores 2.1/100 overall in the r/codex community benchmark, collected October 7, 2026 from 39 posts and 236 comments. Its only scored category is Agentic & tool use at 42/100.

2.1/ 100

Confidence: low — Coverage: 39 posts mentioning Grok-4.6 from a single subreddit (r/codex) inside the window the archive labels month, with up to 40 kept comments per post across the 10 highest-scored posts — 236 kept comments in total. The sample is dominated by the dot.com redirect troll and always-on-agent comparisons (Dots, Grok Bot, Muse, OpenClaw, Hermes); not one thread evaluates the model's capability, pricing or reliability head-on, so every capability category is null on purpose except agentic & tool use. What this is not: an independent measurement.

Category scores

Intelligence no data: No data in the sample — Grok-4.6's mentions never evaluate the model's capability; the discourse is the dot.com redirect troll and Grok Bot as a product category.
Speed no data: No data in the sample.
Coding quality no data: No data in the sample.
Instruction following no data: No data in the sample.
Long context no data: No data in the sample.
Price / value no data: No data in the sample — nobody in Grok's threads discusses its pricing.
Reliability & uptime no data: No data in the sample.
Creativity & writing no data: No data in the sample — the humor is about Elon's trolling, not Grok's prose.
Multimodal & vision no data: No data in the sample.
Agentic & tool use 42: Discussed only as an always-on agent competitor: 'Dot, Grokbot, Muse all seem the same', with users dismissing it as 'nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before' — though one owner reports their dot shopping a cart end-to-end from a recipe list.

Summary

The sample is 10 posts from r/codex inside the window the archive labels month, with up to 40 kept comments per post (236 kept in total), and it is the strangest of the eight: Grok-4.6's mention volume comes almost entirely from trolling and product-category jokes, not from anyone evaluating the model. The top thread is 'Elon did the funniest thing right now' (588 points) — 'OpenAI announces Dots, SpaceXAI buys the domain dot.com and redirects to Grok Bot' — with replies like 'Why didnt he buy dots.com Is he stupid?' and 'But the product is called "Dots", not Dot. It's like buying Twitte .com'.

The second thread is OpenAI's rumored 'O' product, judged through a Grok lens: 'Better usage ? o No. Smarter models ? o No. A groklike bot? o Yeah.' The always-on-agent category is where Grok Bot actually gets discussed — 'Dot, Grokbot, Muse all seem the same. What is it all used for?' — and the verdict is commodity: 'No. It's nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before. I set my Hermes up months ago.' One owner disagrees with a concrete story: 'I gave my dot a bunch of recipes this morning and it shopped my cart for me, picked a curbside pickup slot based on when I was free in my calendar, took it all the way to the checkout screen.'

What the sample never does is evaluate the model: no thread judges Grok-4.6's intelligence, speed, coding or price, which is why every capability category is left unscored. The mention count (39 posts) measures brand presence in Codex's launch week, not community assessment — and the community's own read is that the category itself is niche: 'The amount of people who need an always-on agent must be vanishingly small.'

Everything here is archive-derived sentiment from a self-selected Reddit sample: no independent measurements, and every claim above is a comment a user wrote.

Pros and cons

Pros

The always-on agent angle is real for at least one owner: 'I gave my dot a bunch of recipes this morning and it shopped my cart for me, picked a curbside pickup slot based on when I was free in my calendar, took it all the way to the checkout screen.'
Marketing reach: the dot.com redirect to Grok Bot ('Elon did the funniest thing right now') kept the brand at the center of OpenAI's biggest launch week.

Cons

Judged a commodity: 'No. It's nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before. I set my Hermes up months ago.'
The mention volume is trolling, not capability: 'Why didnt he buy dots.com Is he stupid?' and 'It's like buying Twitte .com' dominate the top thread.
The product category is doubted before the model is discussed: 'The amount of people who need an always-on agent must be vanishingly small.'
Never evaluated head-on: not one of the 39 posts judges Grok-4.6's intelligence, speed or coding, which is why every capability category is unscored.

Top quotes

“Why didnt he buy dots.com Is he stupid?”
Inevitable_Butthole · 195 points neutral view on Reddit ↗
“Congrats! Instead of burning out usage in 2 days you can burn it in 1! (or upgrade to $500 plan. hehhehehehehehhee)”
Happypig375 · 162 points negative view on Reddit ↗
“Better usage ? o No. Smarter models ? o No. A groklike bot? o Yeah”
Adventurous-Print993 · 101 points neutral view on Reddit ↗
“But the product is called "**Dots**", not Dot. It's like buying Twitte .com”
ReasonableDefault · 84 points neutral view on Reddit ↗
“I don’t really understand the appeal for this product or the Grok/Muse equivalents. What’s wrong with just interacting with an agent when you need to? The amount of people who need an always-on agent must be vanishingly small”
Wise-Reflection-7400 · 72 points neutral view on Reddit ↗
“No. It's nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before. I set my Hermes up months ago. Running 24/7 on my server in it's own sandboxed environment with tons of tools / proton mail bridge / telegram setup / copyparty access, etc...etc... I've used it like once this week to scrape text from a paywalled site. That's about the extent of it's use. It's a novelty that is impressive for 1 entire week. Maybe. Go look at Openclaw and Hermes user retention rates to see how this is going to play out.”
randombsname1 · 50 points negative view on Reddit ↗
“I gave my dot a bunch of recipes this morning and it shopped my cart for me, picked a curbside pickup slot based on when I was free in my calendar, took it all the way to the checkout screen and asked me if it could place the order. Gonna make my cake and eat it too.”
Dark_Karma · 12 points positive view on Reddit ↗
“i am kind of shocked openAI did this right when claude code is upping the limits and beating them on performance. i wonder if they’ve just decided it’s not financially sustainable and claude will follow suit”
Cupheadvania · 19 points neutral view on Reddit ↗

FAQ

What is Grok-4.6's overall community score?: 2.1 out of 100, with low confidence: Coverage: 39 posts mentioning Grok-4.6 from a single subreddit (r/codex) inside the window the archive labels month, with up to 40 kept comments per post across the 10 highest-scored posts — 236 kept comments in total. The sample is dominated by the dot.com redirect troll and always-on-agent comparisons (Dots, Grok Bot, Muse, OpenClaw, Hermes); not one thread evaluates the model's capability, pricing or reliability head-on, so every capability category is null on purpose except agentic & tool use. What this is not: an independent measurement.
How was the Grok-4.6 benchmark collected?: From 39 posts and 236 comments on r/codex sampled over the past month window.
Which categories does the Grok-4.6 report score?: Intelligence, Speed, Coding quality, Instruction following, Long context, Price / value, Reliability & uptime, Creativity & writing, Multimodal & vision, Agentic & tool use.
What are the main community pros and cons for Grok-4.6?: Top pros: The always-on agent angle is real for at least one owner: 'I gave my dot a bunch of recipes this morning and it shopped my cart for me, picked a curbside pickup slot based on when I was free in my calendar, took it all the way to the checkout screen.'; Marketing reach: the dot.com redirect to Grok Bot ('Elon did the funniest thing right now') kept the brand at the center of OpenAI's biggest launch week.. Main cons: Judged a commodity: 'No. It's nothing special that Openclaw and or Hermes already couldn't do before. I set my Hermes up months ago.'; The mention volume is trolling, not capability: 'Why didnt he buy dots.com Is he stupid?' and 'It's like buying Twitte .com' dominate the top thread..
When was the Grok-4.6 data collected?: Collected on October 7, 2026; the report was generated on October 7, 2026.

Grok-4.6

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