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Updated Sep 2026

Grok 4.7vsQwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper than Grok 4.7 at $0.1612/M vs $1.6/M input tokens.

Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B compared across 10 shared prompts
SpecGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input price$1.6/M tokens$0.1612/M tokens
Output price$4.8/M tokens$0.9653/M tokens
Context window500K tokens262K tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2026Apr 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 5 of the 10 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Grok 4.71,399 words
This design will lose edits, split users into inconsistent views, and fall over under concurrent writing. The core problems are clock-based conflict resolution, per-server WebSocket fan-out, polling as the sync path, and treating documents as full HTML snapshots.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,016 words
Here’s a systematic breakdown of the critical failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in this architecture, along with specific solutions and their trade-offs. 🔴 1. WebSocket Routing & Load Balancing Problem: Round-robin LB + per-server WebSocket state + no sticky sessions.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Grok 4.7442 words
1-month beginner plan for better health and longevity Focus on three foundations: nutrition, movement, and sleep. Aim for consistency over perfection. If you have a medical condition, check with a clinician before big changes. Week-by-week rhythm Week 1: Build awareness and one easy habit in each area.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B788 words
Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for beginners. The focus is on consistency over intensity. For longevity, small, sustainable habits compound over time. The Golden Rule: If you miss a day, don't quit. Just get back on track the next day. Aim for progress, not perfection.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Grok 4.7599 words
Three weakest claims 1. “Predict what you want to type before you think it” (Slide 1) This is scientifically incoherent, not just ambitious. Non-invasive EEG decodes neural activity that is already underway (motor imagery, attempted speech, attention).
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,014 words
Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with an analysis of why they fail scrutiny and how to fix them. The Technical Claim: "94% Accuracy" & "Any Language" on EEG Where: Slide 3 (Solution) The Claim: The headband decodes neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy and works with any…
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Grok 4.7129 words
Pantry Gold Honey Biscuits A sweet, buttery, slightly salty biscuit that tastes like it took more effort than it did. Ingredients (7) 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ¼ cup sugar ½ cup butter (cold) ¾ cup milk 2 tbsp honey Time: about 10 minutes prep, 12–15 minutes bake Instructions Heat the…
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B236 words
🍜 Golden Honey-Garlic Snap Noodles A quick, sticky-yet-chewy noodle dish that balances sweet, salty, and spicy flavors. It's comforting, fast, and uses ingredients you likely already have.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Grok 4.71,173 words
1. Experienced software engineer An LLM is a stateless function from a token sequence to a probability distribution over the next token. Training is a giant batch job: you stream text, run a forward pass, compare the predicted distribution to the actual next token with cross-entropy, and push gradients through billions…
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B775 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Training an LLM is essentially a massively parallelized optimization job. You feed billions of text tokens into a transformer architecture, which computes a differentiable function across ~100B parameters.
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Our Verdict
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Qwen3.6 35B A3BRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Grok 4.7 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 5.0x less per token.

Slight edge
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Grok 4.7
Input
$1.60
Output
$4.80
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
9.9× cheaper
Output
$0.97
5.0× cheaper

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both: 9.9× input, 5.0× output.

Where to run it

10 hosts, cheapest first

Grok 4.71 host
HostInOutContextUptime
xAI$1.60 in·$4.80 out·500k·99.1% up
Qwen3.6 35B A3B9 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDarkbloomfp4$0.05 in·$0.70 out·262k·100% upAAkashMLfp8$0.10 in·$0.90 out·262k·100% upVVenicefp8$0.10 in·$1.00 out·256k·99.3% upPParasailfp8$0.15 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.9% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.19 in·$1.11 out·262k·99.5% upPPhala$0.20 in·$1.27 out·262k·99.7% up
3 more hostsFewer hosts
SSiliconFlowfp8$0.24 in·$1.80 out·262k·99.7% upCCoreWeavefp8$0.25 in·$1.25 out·262k·99.6% upDDeepInfrafp8degraded$0.10 in·$0.95 out·262k·96.5% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

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Grok 4.7 is developed by xAI while Qwen3.6 35B A3B is developed by Qwen. Grok 4.7 has a 500K token context window vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 10 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 10 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Grok 4.7 costs $1.6/M input tokens and Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.1612/M input tokens. Qwen3.6 35B A3B is $1.44/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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