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xAI: Grok 4.3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-01.

xAI: Grok 4.3 Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Vendorx-aiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score58.065.2
Input Price$1.25/M$0.30/M
Output Price$2.50/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output-65,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index62.061.1
ai_index_agentic39.844.6
ai_index_coding69.788.6

Who wins by task?

TaskxAI: Grok 4.3Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
SQL Generation 158 159
Code Review 155 152
Code Completion 120 130
Code Refactoring 155 148
Bug Fixing 164 162
Unit Test Generation 144 144
Code Documentation 139 134
Regex Writing 130 131
CI/CD Pipelines 136 135
Frontend Component Design 138 140
Data Analysis 153 158
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 147 145
ETL Scripting 145 142
JSON Extraction 134 146
Bulk Data Labeling 124 134
OCR / Document Parsing 141 141
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 141
Long-Document Summarization 152 145
Short-Form Summarization 120 129
Blog Post Writing 134 132

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

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