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Qwen 3 Max vs Grok 4

Qwen vs xAI. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Grok 4 leads on LMSYS ELO (1358 vs 1295). Qwen 3 Max is ~2.7× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Qwen 3 Max is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Qwen

Qwen 3 Max

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

xAI

Grok 4

xAI’s latest. Real-time X search integration, strong on current events and meme-literate tasks.

Live web/X accessPersonalityFast inference on Colossus

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$5.00

Output / 1M$6.40$15.00

Context128K256K

Max output16K32K

LicenseOpen weightsProprietary

Released2025-11-202026-03-01

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.01358.0

MMLU Pro84.086.2

HumanEval87.288.4

MATH85.186.5

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.585.0

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.082

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.070

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.027

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.040

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.060

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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