Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B offers 131.1K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Qwen3-235B-A22B is $11.00 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
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