Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Grok 3 mini
Qwen3-235B-A22B
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