Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Compare Grok 4.5 by xAI against Qwen3 Coder Next by Qwen, context windows of 500K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Grok 4.5
Qwen3 Coder NextRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Grok 4.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Coder Next is 4.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Grok 4.5
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Qwen3 Coder Next
Input
$0.20
10× cheaper
Output
$1.50
4.0× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper on both — 10× input, 4.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
46%
Qwen3 Coder Next uses 9.5x more emoji
Grok 4.5
Qwen3 Coder Next
61%Vocabulary58%
16wSentence Length19w
0.23Hedging0.29
2.5Bold6.3
2.4Lists4.0
0.09Emoji0.86
0.48Headings0.92
0.06Transitions0.07
Based on 27 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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