xAI's Grok 4.7 faces severe criticism from developers over excessive token consumption and aggressive billing, with users expressing frustration while anticipating Grok 4.8.

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        "excerpt": "Grok is very disapointed, even medium level model like terra and sonnet is faster and better. Even the Grok 4.8 is very good at coding, i don’t think any models can better than Opus. I looking for Composer 3, hope its has signification performance and speed so i can use it as a daily assistance for every simple task. However, that role might replaced by using gemini model as well. Quite no hope fo",
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