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Grok-2 vs Qwen3 235B A22B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-2 leads with 5.0% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 120.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-2. Qwen3 235B A22B is $11.80 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-2 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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xAI
Grok 2 was developed as the second generation of xAI's language model family, designed to provide enhanced reasoning, knowledge, and conversational abilities. Built with architectural improvements and expanded training, it represents a significant advancement in xAI's model capabilities.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
8 months newer
Grok-2
xAI
2024-08-13
Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok-2
Input:$2.00
Output:$10.00
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Qwen3 235B A22B
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.10($11.80 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks
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Grok-2
Average Score:73.8%(+5.0%)
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Qwen3 235B A22B
Average Score:68.8%
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Grok-2
1 providers
xAI
Throughput: 85 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms
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Qwen3 235B A22B
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Grok-2
Avg Score:73.8%(+5.0%)
Providers:1
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Qwen3 235B A22B
Avg Score:68.8%
Providers:4