Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 offers 8.2K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $28.00 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 4 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4, released by xAI on July 10, 2025, is a large language model featuring first-principles reasoning and comprehensive multimodal support. It features a 260K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on advanced reasoning and coding benchmarks. Grok 4 targets complex multi-step reasoning tasks, scientific analysis, 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.
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Grok 4
xAI
2025-07-10
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 4
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4
xAI
Qwen3-Max
Grok 4
Qwen3-Max
Grok 4
Qwen3-Max
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