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Grok 3 mini vs Qwen3-Max
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Max offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $1.20 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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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.
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Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
6 months newer
Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok 3 mini
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50($1.20 cheaper)
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Qwen3-Max
Input:$0.50
Output:$1.50
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Grok 3 mini
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xAI
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Qwen3-Max
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Grok 3 mini
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1
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Qwen3-Max
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1