The Race to $-Per-Token: Coding Models Get Fast & Frugal
xAI Grok Code Fast 1 vs Code Llama and Copilot in Developer TCO Race Comparing Grok Code Fast 1, Code Llama, and GitHub Copilot To understand how xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 stacks up against Meta’s Code Llama and GitHub Copilot, let’s compare them across key dimensions like performance, cost, deployment, and integration. Model Overview & Capabilities Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI): Launched in August 2025 by Elon Musk’s xAI, Grok Code Fast 1 is a coding-specialized large model built from a new architecture and trained on a code-heavy corpus eweek.com. It’s explicitly designed for “agentic” coding assistance, meaning it