Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B supports multimodal inputs. 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-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
7 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
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Grok 3 mini
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Grok 3 mini
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