xAI's Opus-class flagship for frontier coding, agentic tool use, and knowledge work.
Qwen's flagship 235B MoE model with 22B active parameters.
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Based on the Capability Index, Grok 4.5 scores higher (88.5 vs 72.3). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen3 235B A22B has a lower blended cost. Grok 4.5: $2.00 input / $6.00 output. Qwen3 235B A22B: $0.45 input / $1.82 output.
Grok 4.5 has a larger context window: Grok 4.5 supports 500K tokens vs Qwen3 235B A22B at 131K tokens.
Grok 4.5 supports vision/image input, but Qwen3 235B A22B does not.
Key differences: Grok 4.5 has a notably higher capability index (16.2 point gap); Qwen3 235B A22B is significantly cheaper; only Grok 4.5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Grok 4.5 and Qwen3 235B A22B for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.