I really like Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning. It is my go to model for most tasks. Grok 4.1 Fast is cheaper and faster since it doesn’t have reasoning.
Grok Fast is an incredibly affordable model.
The reason the Pickaxe shows the price so high is because I am one of the biggest users and my pickaxes typically involve an author uploading an entire novel. This is way more tokens most people would use for a typical chat bot.
Grok 4.1 Fast Has a Massive Context Window
Once you get used to 2 million tokens, it is hard to go back to models with tokens that only go up to 400k tokens.
Grok 4.1 Is Really Good With Actions & Tool Use
Here is a general overview:
Not a Great Writer
The Grok 4.1 models still use a lot of AI cliches. It would not be my go to for writing marketing copy.
Ok - so if you were writing marketing material and your member base was writing marketing content as well - which model would you ultimately use? I personally use Claude Sonnet because I have a plan outside of the pickaxe ecosystem. I previously used GPT 4o and I really liked it but since the upgrades and OpenAI removing 4o altogether as an option - everything is very AI generic. You have to push, and 5.2 doesn’t follow instructions very well and I find 5.2 drifting and making numerous mistakes.
I have considered to build my pickaxe using Gemini - of course I would. need to test the output…thoughts?
For marketing copy, my go to is Sonnet. With the proper prompting you can keep it from being generic AI text. But I haven’t tested Grok 4.20 for marketing copy yet.
Gemini would be worth experimenting with. The key with marketing copy is more about prompt and context engineering than about which model you use.
