Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Coder-480B offers 131.1K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $10.50 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-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 2
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 2
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 2
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