Grok 4 vs Qwen3-Max
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Grok 4
xAI · Jul 2025
xAI's mid-2025 flagship, trained on the 200K-GPU Colossus cluster — a math and science reasoning standout of its generation.
Qwen3-Max
80.5Alibaba (Qwen) · Sep 2025
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
The verdict
Grok 4 wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is about 2.5x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Qwen3-Max also takes 262K of context versus 256K for Grok 4.
Benchmark head-to-head 2–0
Specs & pricing
| Grok 4 | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 80.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 | $1.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 | $6 |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jul 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $52.50 | $21.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Grok 4 or Qwen3-Max?
- Grok 4 wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is about 2.5x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Qwen3-Max also takes 262K of context versus 256K for Grok 4.
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4 or Qwen3-Max?
- Grok 4 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Max costs $1.2/$6. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $52.50 versus $21.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Grok 4 or Qwen3-Max?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.