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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
Vendorqwenx-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score26.950.6
Input Price$0.15/M$1.25/M
Output Price$1.00/M$2.50/M
Context Window262,1442,000,000
Max Output235,9291,800,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index30.142.3
eqbench-55.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BSpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
SQL Generation 134 142
Code Review 132 146
Code Completion 129 121
Code Refactoring 132 150
Bug Fixing 136 150
Unit Test Generation 124 133
Code Documentation 129 139
Regex Writing 122 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 129
Frontend Component Design 125 129
Data Analysis 128 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 138
ETL Scripting 126 139
JSON Extraction 131 123
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 129 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 134
Long-Document Summarization 134 151
Short-Form Summarization 125 118
Blog Post Writing 122 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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