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xAI: Grok 4.3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-17.

xAI: Grok 4.3 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorx-aiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score75.047.1
Input Price$1.25/M$0.10/M
Output Price$2.50/M$0.15/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output-262,144
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index62.041.2
ai_index_agentic100.061.7
ai_index_coding67.741.8

Who wins by task?

TaskxAI: Grok 4.3Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 166 151
Code Review 161 145
Code Completion 120 130
Code Refactoring 159 142
Bug Fixing 176 156
Unit Test Generation 148 137
Code Documentation 141 132
Regex Writing 134 129
CI/CD Pipelines 140 130
Frontend Component Design 142 135
Data Analysis 166 150
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 149 138
ETL Scripting 149 136
JSON Extraction 136 140
Bulk Data Labeling 125 132
OCR / Document Parsing 142 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 142 135
Long-Document Summarization 156 141
Short-Form Summarization 122 128
Blog Post Writing 137 129

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

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