xAI: Grok 4.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare xAI: Grok 4.5 by xAI against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 500K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
xAI: Grok 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, xAI: Grok 4.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
xAI: Grok 4.5
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
10× cheaper
Output
$0.80
7.5× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 10× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 11.5x more emoji
xAI: Grok 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
61%Vocabulary55%
16wSentence Length18w
0.23Hedging0.52
2.5Bold6.7
2.4Lists4.3
0.09Emoji1.04
0.48Headings0.92
0.06Transitions0.11
Based on 27 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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