Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 746.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is $17.00 cheaper per million tokens. 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-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
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
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Grok 3
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