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xAI: Grok 4.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-10.

xAI: Grok 4.5 Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendorx-aiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score91.853.1
Input Price$2.00/M$0.14/M
Output Price$6.00/M$1.00/M
Context Window500,000262,144
Max Output-262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index88.852.2
ai_index_agentic75.435.3
ai_index_coding100.069.1

Who wins by task?

TaskxAI: Grok 4.5Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 171 154
Code Review 167 147
Code Completion 120 130
Code Refactoring 164 144
Bug Fixing 180 156
Unit Test Generation 154 140
Code Documentation 142 133
Regex Writing 135 129
CI/CD Pipelines 144 132
Frontend Component Design 146 137
Data Analysis 170 151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 141
ETL Scripting 154 138
JSON Extraction 139 143
Bulk Data Labeling 125 133
OCR / Document Parsing 146 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 138
Long-Document Summarization 159 142
Short-Form Summarization 123 128
Blog Post Writing 140 130

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

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