Claude vs Grok
Claude and Grok side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Claude is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 20 and Grok is 💤 Quiet with 10. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.
Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.
At a glance
| Measure | Claude | Grok |
|---|---|---|
| Stage | 💤 Quiet | 💤 Quiet |
| Hype score | 19.6 | 9.8 |
| 7-day change | −21.9 | +5.5 |
| In hype since | not in hype now | not in hype now |
| Peak, 30 days | 70.1 on Sep 30, 2026 | 43.8 on Oct 13, 2026 |
| Stories in 7 days | 1,491 | 183 |
| Share of voice, 7 days | 10.1% | 1.2% |
| Sources above normal | 1 of 20 | 1 of 20 |
| Category | 🧠 Models | 🧠 Models |
Hype score, last 30 days
Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Claude is the solid line and Grok the dashed one.
| Day | Claude | Grok |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | 19.6 | 9.8 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 12.8 | 1.9 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 17.8 | 4.2 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 7.5 | 1.7 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 40.7 | 3.4 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 41.6 | 4.3 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 65 | 19.9 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 38.3 | 17.5 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 37.4 | 15.6 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 18.2 | 2.5 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 26.6 | 3.3 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 55.5 | 8 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 67.9 | 23 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 66.9 | 15.2 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 28.6 | 43.8 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 5.1 | 8.7 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 0.4 | 11.5 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 5.8 | 2.2 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 32.8 | 14.6 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 50.3 | 12.2 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 40 | 8.3 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 15.3 | 4.2 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 14 | 7.3 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 10.8 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 12.8 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 18.4 | 17.9 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 20.3 | 6.9 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 70.1 | 9.1 |
Shared themes
What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):
- Agents — 53% of Claude’s stories, 65% of Grok’s
- Usage & adoption — 41% of Claude’s stories, 19% of Grok’s
- Models — 13% of Claude’s stories, 35% of Grok’s
- Protocols & infra — 24% of Claude’s stories, 8.3% of Grok’s
- Companies & business — 4.1% of Claude’s stories, 8.3% of Grok’s
Claude: stories behind it
- Claude account suspended right after verifying with a Russian passport — Reddit (r/Anthropic) · Oct 29 · score 686 · 1,253 comments
- It happened, my project manager just made a PR with Claude. — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 664 · 275 comments
- Opus 5.5 just shared my email address — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 510 · 172 comments
- Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books — Hacker News (stanforddaily.com) · Oct 27 · score 600 · 297 comments
- Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model — Hacker News (gist.github.com) · Oct 29 · score 572 · 232 comments
Grok: stories behind it
- Grok Bot, Muse, Dots, Gemini, Duet: five big-tech agents in 10 weeks. An honest founder’s take on what they got right, and why I think none of them will be the last one you set up — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 20 · 27 comments
- I built a free Grok Bot alternative for macOS. You can finally try it.(really completely free) — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 9 · 17 comments
- Can your AI browser agent pass as a human? We have been testing Muse, Grok, Instinct, and Manus — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 9 comments
- Top House Democrats demand Trump preserve conversations with Grok — Hacker News (politico.com) · Oct 30 · score 4 · 0 comments
- : Official connector so Grok Bots can send briefs directly to Cursor agents (and receive reports back — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 1 comment