Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 746.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $16.00 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-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
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
Qwen3-Max
Grok 3
Qwen3-Max
Grok 3
Qwen3-Max
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