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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-21.

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $3.50 at current list prices.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok 4.6.

Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) was released in September 2026 and Grok 4.6 in August 2026.

Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need long documents, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6
SQL Generation	142	133
Code Review	146	132
Code Completion	119	118
Code Refactoring	148	136
Bug Fixing	150	136
Unit Test Generation	133	124
Code Documentation	137	130
Regex Writing	125	118
CI/CD Pipelines	129	120
Frontend Component Design	131	122
Data Analysis	135	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	136	133
ETL Scripting	138	128
OCR / Document Parsing	134	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	134	131
Long-Document Summarization	149	137
Short-Form Summarization	118	114
Blog Post Writing	130	121

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