SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026 as its strongest model for coding and knowledge work — at Grok 4.6 prices: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 500,000-token context window. The useful claim is not raw first place. It is price-performance.
On CursorBench 4.0, Grok 4.7 reaches 46.3% at about $6 per completed task; Claude Fable 5.1 still leads at 51.8%, but at $17. Artificial Analysis scores it 46 on the Intelligence Index and plots it on the intelligence-versus-cost Pareto line. Fable and GPT-6 remain near 53.
That placement comes from how the model was trained. SpaceXAI started from a larger base than Grok 4.6 and ran a longer reinforcement-learning pass on a harder mix of jobs, weighted toward problems that take many hours to finish. The run emphasized self-checks and long-context control.
The model was also trained to work natively inside the Grok Bot harness — the same engineering loop Grok Build and Cursor agents use for repository edits, terminal sessions, and multi-step specifications. The target was not a quiz model. It was an engineer that stays on a task, verifies the diff, and keeps the thread.
Companies already paying for Cursor, Grok Build, GitHub Copilot, or the xAI API can trial grok-4.7 as a model-ID swap. Use it as the volume workhorse for coding agents, first-pass legal review, and spec-heavy engineering queues. It leads the official table on EEBench and the Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark, and sits near Fable on multi-hour office work at a fraction of rival output prices.
Keep a premium model for the hardest terminal and clinical jobs. Leave xhigh off default traffic: the model is verbose, and cheap tokens are not automatically cheap jobs. Measure it on your own repositories. The Pareto frontier that matters is the one on the invoice.
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