Chatbots · Head-to-head
Grok vs Amália
Grok vs Amália: pricing, features, and which to pick in 2026.
The verdict
Pick Grok if…
- →overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.7 vs 7.8)
- →you want our editor's pick for this category
- →your primary use case is people who want grok 4.6 in chat and need a clear map of free, supergrok, supergrok plus, heavy, and the api.
- →you need: agents
Pick Amália if…
- →budget is the constraint
- →your primary use case is developers, public institutions, and researchers who need an openly licensed european portuguese base model to self-host and fine-tune.
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Grok | Amália |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Chatbots | Chatbots |
| Pricing model | freemium | free |
| Headline pricing | Free + SuperGrok $30/mo + SuperGrok Plus $100/mo + Heavy $300/mo | Free — open weights, dataset and code on Hugging Face |
| Free tier | Yes — a limited grok.com tier with web/X search, voice, and connectors. Caps change; check x.ai/pricing. | Everything is free and open — weights, dataset and code are downloadable from Hugging Face. There is no paid tier; costs are whatever hardware or cloud you run it on. |
| AI Score | 8.7/10 | 7.8/10 |
| Best for | People who want Grok 4.6 in chat and need a clear map of Free, SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, Heavy, and the API. | Developers, public institutions, and researchers who need an openly licensed European Portuguese base model to self-host and fine-tune. |
| Editor's pick | ✓ Yes | — |
| Use cases | research agents development | development research |
| Date added | 2026-03-15 | 2026-07-18 |
Pros and cons
Grok
Chatbots · freemium
Pros
- ✓Current flagship is documented as Grok 4.6 with published API prices
- ✓SuperGrok Plus fills the old $30-to-$300 gap with a published $100 mid-tier
- ✓X search is a first-party tool, not a third-party plugin
- ✓Grok Build and Grok Bot give two other official places to use the same lab
Cons
- ×Grok Bot and in-chat Build Mode are still Heavy (or top Cursor for Bot), not SuperGrok or SuperGrok Plus
- ×API realtime answers require search tools; the raw model cutoff is February 1, 2026
- ×Weekly usage is one shared pool across Chat, Imagine, Voice, and Build, so video or Build can spend the week quickly
- ×Chat, Build, and Bot are three products with three access rules
Amália
Chatbots · free
Pros
- ✓Only major open LLM tuned specifically for European (not Brazilian) Portuguese
- ✓Fully open — weights, dataset and code released, so it's auditable and self-hostable
- ✓No API or usage fees; run it on your own infrastructure
- ✓Transparent, government-backed provenance that public institutions can trust
Cons
- ×Not a turnkey app — you need ML/infra skills to deploy and serve it
- ×Narrow language focus means little value outside Portuguese use cases
- ×Unlikely to match frontier models like GPT-5.5 or Claude on general reasoning
- ×Ecosystem, tooling and community support are new and thin compared to Llama or Mistral
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Updated 2026-08-17. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.