Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3.7-Max
Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, specs, benchmarks, and capabilities
Grok 4.5 is 20% cheaper on blended cost ($3.00 vs $3.75/Mtok)
| Specification |
by xAI
|
Qwen3.7-MaxIntro price
by Alibaba
2 providers:
Alibaba $2.50/$7.50
Together $1.25/$3.75
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|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Status | Current flagship | Current flagship |
| Released | ||
| Pricing per million tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00/Mtok | $2.50/Mtok |
| Output | $6.00/Mtok | $7.50/Mtok |
| Blended avg | $3.00/Mtok | $3.75/Mtok |
| Cached input | — | $0.250/Mtok |
| Price basis | — | On a 50% launch promo to $1.25 in / $3.75 out per 1M (list price tracked). |
| Specifications | ||
| Context window | 500K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Parameters | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Speed (TPS) | — | — |
| Modalities | ||
| Input |
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| Benchmarks sources: Artificial Analysis, LMSYS Chatbot Arena (UC Berkeley), xAI Grok 4.5 launch post / Artificial Analysis, Alibaba, Qwen model card | ||
| Independent composite scores measured for both models — each on its own scale | ||
| AA Intelligence Index | 45.5 | 36.6 |
| AA Agentic Index | 42.4 | 23.9 |
| AA-Omniscience Index (−100–100) | 25.3 | 13.5 |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1526.4 ELO | 1271.8 ELO |
| LMSYS Chatbot Arena | 1471.1 ELO | — |
| Per-benchmark results no per-benchmark score is published for both models — the composites above are what compares them | ||
| GPQA Diamond | — | 68 vendor |
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 45 vendor |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.3 vendor | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 25 vendor |
| ARC-AGI 2 | — | 28 vendor |
| AIME 2025 | — | 70 vendor |
| MMMLU | — | 80 vendor |
| BFCL | — | 68 vendor |
| HumanEval | — | 84 vendor |
| MATH 500 | — | 76 vendor |
| Providers | ||
| Available from |
xAI — $2.00/$6.00/Mtok
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Alibaba — $2.50/$7.50/Mtok
Together — $1.25/$3.75/Mtok
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Cost at scale
1M tokens · 50/50 input/output| Volume | Grok 4.5 | Qwen3.7-Max | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens | $3 | $3.75 | $0.75 (20%) |
| 10M tokens | $30 | $37.5 | $7.5 (20%) |
| 100M tokens | $300 | $375 | $75 (20%) |
| 1000M tokens | $3000 | $3750 | $750 (20%) |
When to pick which
distilled from the pricing and spec data above
Pick Grok 4.5 if…
- cost dominates: $3.00/Mtok blended vs $3.75 — 20% less on the same 50/50 token mix
Pick Qwen3.7-Max if…
- your workload re-reads context (agents, RAG, long chats): cached input costs $0.250/Mtok — 90% off its list input price, a discount Grok 4.5 doesn't offer
- you need the longer context: 1M tokens vs 500K (2×)
- provider flexibility: available from 2 providers, so you can price-shop hosts or fail over
Try Grok 4.5 on xAI
The cheaper option here — Grok 4.5 costs $3.00/Mtok blended on xAI.
Summary
Grok 4.5 by xAI costs $2.00/Mtok input and $6.00/Mtok output, with a 500K-token context window. It supports text, image input.
Qwen3.7-Max by Alibaba costs $2.50/Mtok input and $7.50/Mtok output, with a 1M-token context window. It supports text input and is available from 2 providers.
On a blended cost basis, Grok 4.5 is 20% cheaper than Qwen3.7-Max.
Note: Pricing is per million tokens. Actual costs vary with usage patterns, prompt caching, and batch discounts. Always verify against official provider pricing pages.
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