Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is $4.00 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-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.
2 months newer
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05

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