Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B. Qwen3-235B-A22B is $5.00 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 4.1 Fast supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast, released by xAI in November 2025, is a fast-response variant from the Grok 4 family featuring a 2M token context window designed for high-throughput applications. It omits thinking tokens for immediate responses, reducing latency while maintaining strong output quality. Grok 4.1 Fast targets production APIs, real-time assistants, and cost-sensitive applications requiring long-context understanding at high volume.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
2025-11-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 4.1 Fast
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Grok 4.1 Fast
Qwen3-235B-A22B
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