Side-by-side comparison of Grok-2 (xAI · USA) and Laguna XS.2 (Poolside · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Grok-2 is rated conditional; Laguna XS.2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Grok-2 is "Grok 2 Community", Laguna XS.2 is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional xAI's first open-weights release. Commercial use allowed under the Grok 2 Community License with xAI's Acceptable Use Policy. Notable restriction: weights cannot be used to train other models (distillation ban). 500GB model, needs 8 GPUs with 40GB+. | Conditional Per the published model card, Laguna XS.2 is an Apache 2.0 33B / 3B-active MoE positioned for local agentic coding, with a 131k-token context and FP8 KV cache aimed at single-machine inference. Permissive license and self-hostable weights make EU-side deployment straightforward; the limits are vendor jurisdiction (San Francisco–headquartered, no published EU DPA for hosted endpoints) and a model card that does not describe the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Grok 2 Community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes (w/ AUP) | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 14/100 | — |
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| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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