Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 746.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Coder-480B. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $16.50 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 3 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows 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.
5 months newer

Grok 3
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 3
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 3
Qwen3-Coder-480B
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