Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers 251.1K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $2.50 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
5 months newer

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita