Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Grok 4.5 is developed by xAI, while Qwen3.6 Plus comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.6 Plus was released in March 2026, and Grok 4.5 followed 4 months later in July 2026.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Grok 4.5 leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on SWE-Bench Pro, where Grok 4.5 scores 65.0% against 56.6%; GPQA, where Grok 4.5 scores 93.0% against 90.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Grok 4.5 sits at 52.9% and Qwen3.6 Plus at 74.5%.
Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper API at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, roughly 4 times cheaper than Grok 4.5 at $2 and $6. Qwen3.6 Plus takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 500K for Grok 4.5. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Grok 4.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Company | xAI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 16, 2026 | March 31, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 500K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $0.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $3.00 |
| Average Score | 52.9% | 74.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| SWE-Bench Pro | 65.0% | 56.6% |
| GPQA | 93.0% | 90.4% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.6 Plus leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Grok 4.5 — 0.5, Qwen3.6 Plus — 0.7.
Qwen3.6 Plus is 2.3x cheaper: input $0.50/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Qwen3.6 Plus supports a larger context: 1M vs 500K tokens.
Grok 4.5 is newer: released 7/16/2026 vs 3/31/2026.
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