Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Grok 4.5
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
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Grok 4.5: 1523; Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): 1493 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 65,535 tokens on Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free).
Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) accepts text input and supports thinking and long context.
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