Grok
Grok pairs xAI's in-house models with live access to the X firehose, sold standalone and bundled into X Premium tiers.
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Grok vs Qwen Chat
Grok (xAI) and Qwen Chat (Alibaba) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat is the cheaper entry point at Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed.. Qwen Chat shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 10). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Grok xAI | Qwen Chat Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Grok 4.7 | Qwen3-2507 |
| Entry cost | from $2/mo | Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed. |
| Pricing tiers | Grok 4.7 Input (per 1M tokens) $2 · Grok 4.7 Output (per 1M tokens) $6 | Chat with Qwen free |
| Model stack | grok-4.5 · grok-4.6 · grok-4.7 · grok-imagine-image · grok-imagine-image-2.0 · grok-imagine-image-quality · grok-imagine-video · grok-imagine-video-1.5 | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ |
| Context window | 500000 | 256K |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 10 | 11 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Real-time X search, Think and Big Brain modes, Voice mode, Image generation, API access, text generation, agentic coding, voice agent | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding |
Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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