Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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-VL Flash is a lightweight multimodal variant from Alibaba's Qwen3-VL family, designed for efficient visual reasoning and image understanding at lower inference cost. It inherits the joint visual-textual architecture of the Qwen3-VL series and targets latency-sensitive applications requiring multimodal input processing at scale.
6 months newer

Grok 4
xAI
2025-07-10
Qwen3-VL Flash
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-01-22
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4
xAI
Qwen3-VL Flash
Grok 4
Qwen3-VL Flash
Grok 4
Qwen3-VL Flash