How did Grok 4.5 do on X?

Grok posted the Grok 4.5 launch from @grok on Jul 10, 2026. The post has 35,129,941 views, 7,677 likes, 806 reposts, 233 quotes and 676 replies, an engagement rate of 0.03%. It ranks #22 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Grok@grok · 9.4M followersView on X
Grok 4.5 is now available to try on the free tier. Use Grok Build with any X or Grok account. We’re excited to hear your feedback. https://x.ai/cli
Grok 4.5 launch post media
Jul 10, 2026 · 35,129,941 views
  • 201xthe median launch175K median views
  • #22of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 3.7xits own following9,396,269 followers
Views
35.1M
Likes
7.7K
Reposts
806
Quotes
233
Replies
676
Bookmarks
1.4K

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 35.1M views would cost $3.5M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $878K.

The post reached about 3.7 views for every follower of @grok.

What launched?

Grok launched Grok 4.5 on the free tier, letting anyone with an X or Grok account use it with Grok Build.

How does it compare with other launches?

Grok 4.5 has more views than 99% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 201x the median launch's 175K views.

  • Grok 4.535.1M
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricGrok 4.5Median launch
Views35.1M175K
Engagement rate0.03%0.48%
Views per follower3.72.8
Quote posts23327
Saves per 10K views0.414.2

Other Grok launches we track: Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview (90.2M views), Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (52.1M views), Grok for Excel (24.3M views), Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot (8M views), Grok 4.5 in GitHub Copilot (7.4M views), /goal in Grok Build (4.2M views). All 11 Grok launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,462264.5K133x#17
Accounts over 1M followers2242.2M16x#13
Image launch posts620143.1K245x#2
Every launch2,839175K201x#22

What this launch shows

From an account with 9.4M followers, the post reached 3.7 times the account's following. Launches from accounts over 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 6.9 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 13 of 224 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 233 quote posts, 0.1 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Grok 4.5 is now available to try on the free tier. Use Grok Build with any X or Grok account.". The post runs 26 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 162.2K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

How many views did Grok 4.5 get on X?
35,129,941 views. Grok posted it from @grok on Jul 10, 2026, and the post has 7,677 likes, 806 reposts, 233 quotes, 676 replies and 1,378 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Grok 4.5 a big launch on X?
It ranks #22 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 99% of them and 201x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.03%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 35.1M views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 35.1M views would cost $3.5M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $878K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/grok-4-5, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.