Grok 4 Tutorial for Beginners in 2025 Updated

Recently, in July, Grok came up with their new version called Grok 4 that came up with some advanced features.

And, when people started accessing it for the first time, they got blank. 

That’s why we came up with the complete Grok 4 tutorial and even if you’re an absolute beginner, this blog will give you updates about everything, starting with the new features and how to use each one of them.

So, let’s begin dissecting Grok 4.

Grok 4 Tutorial: Initial Setup & Customization

The Grok 4 interface looks similar to the predecessors but there are some changes we are going to look into.

1. Choose Your Response Style

Grok 4 now comes with 4 different conversation styles that make it more amazing and lovely to engage.

You just have to go to bottom left, then Click on profile > Click on settings and you will get the 4 options looking like this…

Let’s understand the four different modes 

1. Concise – With the concise option, you will get short and clear answers that won’t waste your time.

2. Formal – With the formal option, it will provide clear, well-structured sentences having precise language. It will maintain professionalism and avoid casual conversations.

3. Socratic – It responds to you as s socratic teacher that answers all questions deeply by asking thoughtful questions. It prioritises clarity, curiosity and learning.

4. Custom – If nothing fits well for you, you can choose custom and type in your own style and Grok will give you that.

2. Lock Down Your Data Settings

Go to the Data Controsl option and you will see two options there, like this.

1. Once you reach Data controls you can see the option for Improve The Model. Based on the information you’re putting in, it will store that data and provide you future responses accordingly.

You can either keep it on or off based on your needs.

2. Unlike chatGPT Grok provides an option to switch off so that it won’t remember the conversation history and give you fresh responses whenever you ask something.

3. Connect Your Cloud Storage 

Grok 4 provides you the ability to connect your cloud storage easily so that you can easily upload any of your files without any hassle.

It can connect with google drive or microsoft OneDrive so that you can upload without doing it manually. The best part it makes easy is it remembers all your files sequentially so that if you want to come and check any of them, you can do it.

Or, if you’re concerned about privacy, then you can remove any of the files by going to data controls.

4. Comes With 3 Primary Modes

The updated interface of Grok comes with 3 primary modes and they help in different functions. Let’s break down each one of them:

1. Auto Mode – Based on your query, Grok automatically decides which model to fetch up and gives a response according to that.

Depending on the question you’re asking, you will get answers, making it easier for you to not navigate everytime.

2. Fast Mode – If you want fast forward answers to your query, then Fast mode powered by Grok 3 gives you answers according to your query that answer your question.

3. Expert Mode – It uses the new Grok 4 to answer thoroughly and thoughtfully to answer complex questions.

4. Heavy Mode (Pro Plan) – If you want spend more budget on Grok then you can purchase Grok heavy mode.

Built-In Web Search And Code Execution

Grok 4 came up with a massive upgrade and it is mind-blowing.

Now, Grok 4 can use external tools to start answering your questions and the two primary tools are 

• Web Search
• Code Interpreter.

Using xAI’s real-time search API Grok 4 can google things in real time and find you the output. Along with that, it runs python code as part of answering.

Now, Grok 4 can help you interpret code using python. It has an internal code execution tool and gives you the formatted result in a clean table.

You can get real-time information from X by asking a simple prompt.

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How To Prompt In Grok 4?

Alright, Grok 4 comes with a lot fo features though and almost all are unavoidable. But it’s really important to know how to prompt in the right way in Grok 4. Let’s find out…

1. Basic Prompting

Let’s start with understanding some examples of how the right prompting improves Grok’s answer.

Query – Explain the theory of relativity in 3 bullet points, and mention it in a casual tone and end with a light joke.

Now, we will wait for the answers…

See, it came up with 3 bullet points and was written in a very casual tone and ended with a funny joke.

Steps To Do It In A Better Way

Let’s understand with some examples of prompts and what kind of answers you can expect.

1. Help me write an essay about school life in a very professional way and end with a good heart-touching quote.

2. How exactly does gravity work? Teach in a fun and light-hearted way so that I can’t forget.

3. Teach me about {New Topic}. Teach me like a teacher who is funny and smart at the same time.

The more clear context you can give Grok, you’re going to get better answers. You can get any kind of writing style that will fit your needs.

So, what are you waiting for try dropping some amazing prompts on Grok 4.

Grok 4 Upgraded Voice Mode

Typing is a very mundane thing to do and who’s going to write such long prompts? That’s why Grok 4 came up with their upgraded voice mode that is much more likely similar to ChatGPT’s voice mode.

It makes Grok 4 more convenient and super easy to use.

Grok 4 voice mode comes with different kinds of styles now. Let’s see what those are.

You can use any of the voice styles at anytime you want. This won’t make your engagement in Grok boring.

• Want to have a funny female voice then you can choose Upbeat Female voice.

Based on your need, change any type of voice you want to put.

Grok 4 Came With Their Own Supersearch

Just like Chat GPTs “Deep Research” Grok also came up with their own “Deep Search” option that works as an expert and gives you deeper data any time you want.

So, the game again comes to the prompting. The better the prompt you write in detail, the better data and answers it can give you. 

A good prompt with a clear context will help you with better data and answers.

Grok 4 vs. GPT 5: Which One Is Better?

People are curious to know which one is better and how it will enhance performance. Whether it is Grok 4 or GPT 5, let’s find out.

Metric/Benchmark	Grok 4/Grok 4 Heavy	GPT-5	Notes, Caveats & Context
Context window / token capacity	Claims of 256,000 tokens context window	GPT-5 supports long-context reasoning and outperforms on “AA-LCR” (long-context reasoning) benchmarks	Grok’s 256 k is large vs many earlier models; GPT-5 likely supports even longer or more flexible context in practice
Reasoning/abstraction (ARC-AGI, etc.)	On ARC-AGI V2, Grok 4 achieves ~ 15.9 % (nearly double prior high) In “Humanity’s Last Exam”, Grok 4 Heavy first to reach ~50.7 % (text-only)	GPT-5 leads in “AA-LCR” (long context reasoning) benchmarks. In biomedical reasoning (BioNLP), GPT-5 outperforms GPT-4 and GPT-4o in macro average.	Different benchmarks target different skill types (reasoning, abstraction, multi-step planning)
Coding / software engineering	In independent reviews: places Grok 4 Heavy is in the top tier; the Aider benchmark puts Grok 4 in “4th place” in writing/editing code. Some claims that Grok 4 dominates LiveCodeBench with ~79.4 % correctness	GPT-5 scores 74.9 % on SWE-bench Verified; 88 % on Aider Polyglot (coding across languages). Also, in PR Benchmark (mid budget) GPT-5 scored ~ ~72.2.	Note: differences in what “coding task” means (bug fix, code generation, multi-file) matter. Grok’s “Heavy” vs base variant may differ
Latency / throughput (tokens/sec)	Output speed: ~43.4 tokens/sec, latency: ~12.94 s (per ArtificialAnalysis)	GPT-5 “High” variant: ~ 91.1 tokens/sec in one evaluation, though higher latency vs average	These numbers are from third-party estimates; actual production performance may differ
Hallucination / error / reliability	Criticisms of “questionable behavior” and occasional misinformation have been noted in launch reviews	GPT-5 is claimed to reduce hallucinations, better instruction following and lower error rates, especially in “real-world queries”	Hard to directly compare; depends heavily on prompt, domain, and tool integration
Domain/specialised benchmarks	(No strong public claims in these specialized domains found.)	In biomedical NLP tasks, GPT-5 outperforms GPT-4 / GPT-4o in a broad suite of tasks (NER, QA, classification). In radiology/medical imaging reasoning, GPT-5 shows substantial gains over GPT- 4o (up to +20 %)	This suggests GPT-5 has advantages in cross-domain and multimodal medical reasoning
Aggregate claimed “state-of-the-art” / leadership	Grok 4 is presented by xAI as “saturating most academic benchmarks”, and Grok 4 Heavy as achieving new standards (e.g. first to 50 % HLE).	OpenAI claims GPT-5 is “state-of-the-art” across key coding/reasoning benchmarks (SWE-bench, Aider).	Leadership claims are always with caveats; differences in test sets, prompt setups, and evaluation methods matter

Conclusion

Well, Grok 4 comes up with different kinds of features and they are really useful. It’s completely up to you which one you want to use and when. 

Nevertheless, Grok 4 is intuitive and very useful for your day-to-day tasks as well as heavy tasks.

So, go and start using it.

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