Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Coder-480B. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $4.50 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-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
2025-11-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 4.1 Fast
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 4.1 Fast
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Grok 4.1 Fast
Qwen3-Coder-480B
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