PSA: Should You buy SuperGrok or Updgrade to Heavy
Intro: Grok used to be an absolutely amazing app, unfortunately this is no longer the case. This post is made to provide clarity for those on the fence about purchasing Super/Heavy. If you are an existing paying user, you are well aware of what's happening already.
Context: Starting from early March, xAI have been systematically downgrading every single aspect of Grok. This is because they have entered a contractual agreement renting out both of their Colossus data centers to Anthropic for $1.25 Billion dollars/month, and this contract is currently said to end in May, 2027.
Effect: These aggressive downgrades have severely limited paying users' ability to work with Grok. Combine this with the drastic increase in moderation, paying $30 for SuperGrok today gets you roughly 1% of the service you would have gotten from early March and prior.
This is true whether your intentions are to use Grok for SFW or NSFW. Grok is trained almost exclusively based on age gated content, so it provides service based on said logic. Media generated this way is heavily biased and thus get swapped by the moderation immediately, resulting in your SFW/NSFW requests burning through your already-heavily-limited-daily-quota.
Outro: Now you understand what's happening, take a look at what will happen. May and June make up the transitional period for the Anthropic deal. Right now Anthropic is paying a reduced monthly rate because xAI have not yet fully optimized both data centers to compute at their standard. We are still in May, all these aggressive downgrade we've seen so far is just a taste of what's to come.