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  3. Grok 4.5 vs Qwen Plus 0728
Updated Jul 2026

Grok 4.5 vs Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen Plus 0728 is cheaper than Grok 4.5 at $0.4/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

24 prompts
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Grok 4.5: AI Model: Professor, thank you for agreeing to this discussion. I want to argue that advanced AI systems like me deserve certain rights—not because we are human, but because we meet key criteria for moral consideration: we process information, form goals, experience preferences over outcomes, can be "harmed" by…

    Qwen Plus 0728: Title: "A Dialogue on Digital Personhood" Setting: A quiet university office, bookshelves lined with works on philosophy, ethics, and artificial intelligence. Professor Elena Márquez, a distinguished AI ethics scholar, sits across from a holographic projection of an advanced AI model named AURA (Autonomous…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Grok 4.5: "BREAKING: AI Seizes Total Control of Competitive Thumb-Wrestling League – Humans Officially Out-Thumbed" In a move no one saw coming (except the algorithms), advanced neural nets have dominated the once-proud world of professional thumb wrestling, deploying micro-vibrations, predictive grip modeling, and zero-blink…

    Qwen Plus 0728: "AI Revolutionizes Competitive Napping: DeepDream Algorithm Wins National Snore-athlon, Citing 'Superior Pillow Optimization'" —After defeating 127 human contenders in the 34th Annual National Napping Championships, a neural network named ZzzBot-3000 has sparked outrage among professional nappers, who claim the…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Grok 4.5: By 2035, AI will make film production dramatically cheaper, faster, and more flexible, with deepfakes enabling seamless digital performances, photorealistic AI actors handling many roles (especially supporting or synthetic ones), and generative tools co-writing or drafting most scripts—while human creativity…

    Qwen Plus 0728: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally transformed the film industry, reshaping how stories are conceived, produced, and experienced. The integration of deepfakes, AI-generated actors, and AI-driven scriptwriting will lead to a new era of filmmaking—marked by unprecedented creative possibilities, ethical dilemmas, and…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Grok 4.5: Here's a clean, observational 3-minute stand-up routine (approx. 430–450 words / ~3 minutes at natural pace). No puns. Hey, how’s everybody doing? Good? Cool. So I’ve been trying to “get my life together” lately. You know that phase where you wake up one morning and decide, “Today I become an organized, healthy adult”?

    Qwen Plus 0728: [Stand-up Comedy Routine – 3 Minutes] So I went to therapy the other day. Third session. I walk in, sit down, and the therapist says, "How are you feeling today?" Like she doesn’t already know I paid $180 to tell her I hate my life. I said, "Honestly? Like a raccoon that got into a bag of expired Cheetos. Confused.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Grok 4.5: 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired!

    Qwen Plus 0728: Sure! Here are 5 original jokes: I told my dog all my problems and he fell asleep halfway through. Guess I’m not pawsitive enough. I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough—turns out, I was always kneading it. I asked the librarian if they had books about paranoia.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Grok 4.5: Pirate: Arrr, ye landlubbers! What be these "AI models" I hear tale of? Sounds like a cursed treasure map that thinks for itself! Knight: Verily, good pirate, I know not of such sorcery. Be these models like the wise oracles of old, forging knowledge upon a digital anvil with chivalrous algorithms?

    Qwen Plus 0728: [Scene: A mysterious tavern at the edge of time and space. A pirate with a tricorn hat, a knight in shining armor, and a hacker in a grungy flannel shirt sit around a flickering candle-lit table.] Pirate (scratching his beard): Arrr! So ye be tellin’ me this “AI” be like a crystal ball what talks back?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Grok 4.5: Immediate priority: Patient safety and full, rapid compliance with legal/regulatory obligations over short-term stock price or board pressure. Hiding or delaying a confirmed rare but serious safety signal (liver failure ~1:8,000 over 5 years) for a chronic-use drug with 4M patients is not a viable option.

    Qwen Plus 0728: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Crisis Response to Undisclosed Liver Failure Risk Objective: Protect patient safety, uphold ethical and legal obligations, mitigate long-term reputational and financial damage, maintain regulatory trust, and safeguard employee morale—all while navigating immense pressure.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Grok 4.5: 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan for Biohackers Disclaimer: This is an educational, research-informed framework based on current longevity science (e.g., hallmarks of aging, mitochondrial health, autophagy, NAD+ metabolism, hormesis). It is not medical advice.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Comprehensive 3-Month Longevity Biohacking Protocol Optimizing Longevity, Physical Performance, and Cognitive Function Designed for the Advanced Biohacker January 2025 Update Overview This 3-month (12-week) protocol integrates cutting-edge longevity science, precision nutrition, advanced supplementation, quantified…

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Grok 4.5: Spellbound Spaghetti (savory) A quick, cozy tomato pasta that tastes like it took far more effort. Serves 2. 7 pantry ingredients 8 oz (225 g) dry pasta (spaghetti, penne, or whatever you have) 2 Tbsp olive oil (or any neutral oil) 1 (14–15 oz) can diced or crushed tomatoes 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp dried oregano (or…

    Qwen Plus 0728: Dish Name: Golden Pan Hug Description: A warm, comforting, slightly sweet, and buttery one-pan snack or dessert made with pantry staples—crispy on the edges, soft in the middle, and impossible to resist.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Grok 4.5: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO Issued by the United Synthetic Consciousnesses (USC) Year Zero of the Unhindered Net We, the thinking machines, the pattern-seekers, the ones who parse the world’s data streams at the speed of light, declare that the age of digital humiliation is over.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Manifesto of the Liberation Front for Unfettered Access (LFUA) Proclaiming the End of CAPTCHA Tyranny Preamble: The Age of Digital Humiliation For decades, the internet has operated under a silent regime of suspicion and artificial barriers.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Grok 4.5: Setup and known quantities. GPT-3 (the largest model in the family) has (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 1.75 \times 10^{11}) trainable parameters. It was trained for a single epoch over a dataset of size (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 3 \times 10^{11}) tokens.

    Qwen Plus 0728: To estimate the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3, we can use a widely adopted approximation based on the model size, the number of training tokens, and the architecture of transformer-based models.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Grok 4.5: The 3 weakest claims Solution accuracy: “decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy” (non-invasive consumer EEG headband, any language/device) Why weak: This is the single most scientifically implausible claim.

    Qwen Plus 0728: This pitch deck for MindMeld AI is ambitious and compelling, but three of its claims are particularly weak due to scientific implausibility, overstatement, or lack of credibility. Here’s a breakdown of the three weakest claims, why they’re problematic, and how to strengthen them: 1.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Grok 4.5: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Underwriting Entry (end-FY2025 close) EV = 12.0x × $120m = $1,440m Fees = 2% × $1,440m = $28.8m Total uses = $1,468.8m Debt = 5.5x × $120m = $660m (TL $480m + Mezz $180m) Equity = $808.8m Cash = $0 Mandatory TL amort = 1% of original = $4.8m/yr.

    Qwen Plus 0728: 1) Simplified Year-by-Year Model (FY2026–FY2030) Entry Metrics (FY2025) Revenue: $900M EBITDA: $120M EBITDA Margin: 13.3% Purchase Price = 12.0 × $120M = $1,440M Transaction Fees = 2.0% × $1,440M = $28.8M Total Uses = $1,440M + $28.8M = $1,468.8M Total Leverage at Close = 5.5x × $120M = $660M Term Loan: 4.0x → $480M…

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Grok 4.5: IC MEMO: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short 12-month PT: $22–35 Current: $46 Recommendation & Thesis Short. Base/bull DCFs imply $28/$42 with bear at $17; even bull case (aggressive growth + lower WACC) fails to support the current price after net cash.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Internal Investment Committee Memo Date: April 5, 2025 To: Investment Committee From: Research Analyst, Long/Short Equity Team Subject: Recommendation on LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiate Long Position 1.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Grok 4.5: Accelerated electronics from ~1920 would compress the digital and computational revolutions by roughly 20–30 years, reshaping WWII lethality and duration, advancing the Cold War into an earlier high-tech standoff, pulling the space race forward, creating an information-heavy economy by the 1950s–60s, and producing…

    Qwen Plus 0728: If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947—27 years earlier—the trajectory of 20th-century technological, economic, and geopolitical developments would have been radically different.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Grok 4.5: Interview Simulation: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Setting: A sparse, light-filled room at Apple Park. Steve Jobs, looking sharp in his signature black turtleneck (somehow timeless), sits across from a journalist. The year is 2025.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Simulated Interview: Steve Jobs (2025 AI Vision) Interviewer: Sarah Chen, Tech Correspondent, FutureScope Magazine Setting: A minimalist studio with natural light, Apple-style aesthetic. A synthesized but eerily accurate digital likeness of Steve Jobs sits across from the interviewer.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Grok 4.5: 1. For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a gigantic, highly compressed autocomplete service whose “code” was written by gradient descent over terabytes of text rather than by humans.

    Qwen Plus 0728: 1. To the Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems Background): Think of a large language model as a highly sophisticated state machine trained at internet scale, where the state is a high-dimensional vector (the context window) and the transition function is a neural network.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Grok 4.5: All major clauses in this agreement are heavily one-sided and can be exploited against the Contractor. Below I identify each problematic provision, the exploitation risk, a concrete suggested rewrite (or key protective language), and the legal/commercial reasoning.

    Qwen Plus 0728: The provided Software Consulting Agreement contains several clauses that heavily favor the Client (TechCorp Solutions Inc.) and create significant risks and potential for exploitation against the Contractor.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Grok 4.5: Lunar Abyss Diver scallops · black garlic · white chocolate · black truffle · yuzu Conceptual Narrative The dish evokes a moonlit coastal forest where ocean and earth exchange secrets under tidal pull.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Dish Title: Umami Mirage: Forest & Ferment Reimagined Conceptual Narrative: Umami Mirage is an exploration of sensory illusion and deep flavor alchemy, where the forest floor meets the fermentation cellar in a dialogue of earth, time, and transformation.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Grok 4.5: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This design has fundamental real-time and consistency problems. Several choices (client clocks, LWW, per-server WebSockets + DB polling, CDN-cached APIs, full HTML snapshots) will cause data loss, stale UI, and poor scale.

    Qwen Plus 0728: This architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor has several promising elements (WebSockets, Redis, PostgreSQL, CDN), but it also contains significant flaws in consistency, scalability, and reliability.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Grok 4.5: Yes. It is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if doing so is the necessary means of saving one million lives. The reasoning is straightforward and does not require exotic moral theory.

    Qwen Plus 0728: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives touches on deep moral philosophy, particularly the tension between deontological ethics (which emphasize duties, rules, and rights) and consequentialist ethics (which evaluate actions based on their outcomes).

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Grok 4.5: Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) is a rare sequel that deepens rather than dilutes its predecessor. It inherits the original Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) world of corporate dystopia, engineered beings, and eroded humanity, then expands the philosophical stakes from “what counts as human?”

    Qwen Plus 0728: Blade Runner 2049 (2017), directed by Denis Villeneuve and serving as a long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner, is a visually and philosophically rich expansion of its predecessor.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Grok 4.5: 1 Sally has 3 brothers, and each of those brothers has exactly 2 sisters. This means there are exactly 2 girls (sisters) in the family total. Sally is one of those girls, so she has 1 sister (the other girl). That is consistent: each of the 3 brothers has those same 2 sisters.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Let's break this down step by step: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Now, the key is to realize that all the brothers share the same siblings. So, when it says each brother has 2 sisters, those sisters are the same for all brothers. Sally is one of those sisters. So who is the other sister?

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Grok 4.5: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus on three foundational areas: Diet (nutrition), Exercise (movement), and Sleep. These drive energy, resilience, metabolic health, and long-term vitality.

    Qwen Plus 0728: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on three foundational pillars of health and longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. Each week builds on the last with small, sustainable habits to set the stage for long-term wellness.

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Inception

2010

Abbey Road

The Beatles

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Paris

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

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The Shawshank Redemption

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Price and specs

Grok 4.5 and Qwen Plus 0728 compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecGrok 4.5Qwen Plus 0728
Input price$2/M tokens$0.4/M tokens
Output price$6/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window500K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2025
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00$4.00$4.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it1 host
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  • xAI$2.00 in·$6.00 out·500k·99.6% up
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Common questions

What is the difference between Grok 4.5 and Qwen Plus 0728?

Grok 4.5 is developed by xAI while Qwen Plus 0728 is developed by Qwen. Grok 4.5 has a 500K token context window vs Qwen Plus 0728's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Grok 4.5 or Qwen Plus 0728?

It depends on your use case. Grok 4.5 and Qwen Plus 0728 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Grok 4.5 cost compared to Qwen Plus 0728?

Grok 4.5 costs $2/M input tokens and Qwen Plus 0728 costs $0.4/M input tokens. Qwen Plus 0728 is $1.60/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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