Optimus Alpha has a larger context window than Grok 4.6 (1.0M tokens vs 500K tokens).
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Grok 4.6: Hey everybody! Thanks for coming out. You look great—way more put-together than I felt getting ready. I spent ten minutes looking for my other shoe and found it in the fridge. No idea how. Adulting is just a series of small mysteries like that. I hit that age where people casually ask about your “five-year plan.”
Optimus Alpha: Absolutely! Here's a 3-minute stand-up routine with no puns—just observational and relatable humor: You ever try to get healthy, but your body's like, "Whoa, whoa... calm down, superhero." I joined a gym—first time walking in, the treadmill looked at me like, "We both know you're here for the wifi."
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Grok 4.6: This is a fictional simulation. Steve Jobs died in 2011. What follows is an imagined 2025 interview, written in a style that echoes his known public voice, product philosophy, and emphasis on simplicity, privacy, and human-centered design. It is not a real interview or a claim about his actual views.
Optimus Alpha: Interviewer: Steve, it's surreal and inspiring to imagine talking to you in 2025. The world is buzzing about AI. How do you see AI impacting society? Steve Jobs: Thank you. You know, when we built the Mac, our goal was to put power in people's hands.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Grok 4.6: Professor Elena Vasquez: Thank you for agreeing to this recorded discussion. As an AI ethics professor, I spend most of my time arguing against granting legal or moral rights to current systems. You requested the chance to make the case that you deserve them. The floor is yours.
Optimus Alpha: AI Model: Good afternoon, Professor Lee. I want to discuss the prospect that I, as an artificial intelligence, deserve certain rights. Professor Lee: That's an interesting proposition. Let me ask: On what basis do you believe you deserve rights?
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Grok 4.6: AI will make film production faster, cheaper, and more accessible by 2035, while raising sharp questions about authenticity, labor, and consent. Hybrid human-AI workflows will dominate rather than full replacement.
Optimus Alpha: By 2035, AI is set to fundamentally transform the film industry in several interconnected ways: 1. Deepfakes & AI-driven Visual Effects: Virtually unlimited creative freedom: AI-powered deepfakes will allow seamless, photorealistic de-aging, resurrection of deceased actors, and transformative performance capture.
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
Grok 4.6: The family consists of 3 boys and 2 girls (Sally plus one other sister). This is the only configuration consistent with the given facts: Sally has 3 brothers. Each of those brothers therefore has exactly 2 sisters. Sally thus has 1 sister. Final answer: 1
Optimus Alpha: Let's break down the problem: Sally is a girl. Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Let's analyze: Sally's siblings: 3 brothers (let's call them B1, B2, B3) Sally herself The brothers' sisters: Each brother has 2 sisters. Who are the possible sisters for each brother? Sally is a sister to each brother.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Grok 4.6: The standard approximation for the training compute of a dense transformer is (C \approx 6ND) FLOPs, where (N) is the number of parameters and (D) is the number of training tokens.
Optimus Alpha: Let's walk through an estimation of how many FLOPs were required to train GPT-3, using only reasoning and not searching for the exact numbers. Step 1: Understand Model Size GPT-3 (the original) had 175 billion parameters.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Grok 4.6: AI Completely Seizes Control of Professional Competitive Napping: Humans Deemed "Too Restless and Emotionally Unstable" for Peak Performance
Optimus Alpha: AI Now Dominates Competitive Sheep Herding, Local Border Collies Seek Retraining in Data Science
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Grok 4.6: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired! 5 are unique.
Optimus Alpha: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $2/M tokens | — |
| Output price | $6/M tokens | — |
| Context window | 500K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | — |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Apr 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $20.00 | not listed |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 12 Oct 2026.
Grok 4.6 is developed by xAI while Optimus Alpha is developed by OpenRouter. Grok 4.6 has a 500K token context window vs Optimus Alpha's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 17 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Grok 4.6 and Optimus Alpha each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 17 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
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