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Grok 4.3 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Grok 4.3 leads Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 24.9 to 12.7, and Grok 4.3 costs 1.4x less per output token ($2.50 vs $3.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 43 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Grok 4.3 Replace Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Grok 4.3xAI
Coding
37.4
Overall
53.1
Output $/M
$2.50
18
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen
Coding
No data
Overall
52.9
Output $/M
$3.50
25
vs boards won of 43 shared

Grok 4.3 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: which to pick

Only Grok 4.3 has a coding score, 37.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

Model AGrok 4.3xAI37.4/1003 independent benchmarks$0.31 per solved taskModel BQwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507QwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
43
Grok 4.3 only
63
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 only
3
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Grok 4.3 37.4 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 not benchmarked.
Widest category
Web design, 23.3 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Design Arena: UI components: Grok 4.3 1190 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 942, 31.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.3 $2.50 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $3.50 per million output tokens, 1.4x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.3 takes 1M tokens, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 128K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGrok 4.3BarsQwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Ties
Coding22
Intelligence10
Agentic work20
Reasoning13
Math12
Knowledge05
Web design60
General513
All shared boards1825
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index22
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
LMArena WebDev1358Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
AA Coding Index42.222.1Grok 4.3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)71.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)19.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)6.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)42.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)40.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
SciCode48.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)37.9%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
WeirdML49.9%41.0%Grok 4.3
ALE-Bench944.2Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Text: coding14151424Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: software and IT14161431Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena WebDev: React1353Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1367Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1375Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
AA Intelligence Index24.912.7Grok 4.3
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
AA Agentic Index15.51.3Grok 4.3
Design Arena: agents building web apps1126Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1006Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1058Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps962Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games914Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1007Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides948Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides987Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets929Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)37.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)6.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)15.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)18.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom97.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$35-$11Grok 4.3
LMArena Search1166Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
GPQA Diamond91.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)83.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)90.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)37.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)88.8%80.1%Grok 4.3
Chess puzzles18.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured9.0%Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13961416Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: expert13841463Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14021432Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Vision: diagrams1241Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1241Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
OTIS Mock AIME93.3%86.7%Grok 4.3
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 342.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
FrontierMath, tier 414.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
ProofBench11.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Text: math13871412Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: mathematical work13961435Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
MMLU Pro85.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)79.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)68.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)70.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)48.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)38.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
SimpleQA Verified33.2%40.4%Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: science13991433Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13841456Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: legal and government13861415Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: business and finance13811413Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
Design Arena: websites11961052Grok 4.3
Design Arena: UI components1190942Grok 4.3
Design Arena: game dev1172956Grok 4.3
Design Arena: data viz1180950Grok 4.3
Design Arena: 3D1124997Grok 4.3
Design Arena: all code categories11861032Grok 4.3
Design Arena: SVG1080Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1125Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index513
General benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)51.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)19.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)74.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Vals Multimodal Index43.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
IFBench83.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)75.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
DTBench90.7%80.3%Grok 4.3
LMCA38.3%29.3%Grok 4.3
Fiction.LiveBenchNot measured75.0%Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)Not measured82.4%Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured
LMArena Text13971415Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: instruction following13661386Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: creative writing13801384Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Vision1229Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Text: English14041429Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: non-English13851397Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: Chinese14221481Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: German13951408Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: Japanese13791386Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: Korean13541375Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: French1411Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish13991389Grok 4.3
LMArena Text: Russian13991401Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: Polish13981390Grok 4.3
LMArena Text: multi-turn14061406Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: longer queries13931400Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: writing and language13851388Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13701370Grok 4.3
LMArena Vision: English1235Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1257Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1235Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: humor1222Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1217Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1237Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
EQ-Bench 41075Not measuredOnly Grok 4.3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Grok 4.3$0.0025Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.0022Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.3$0.070Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.033Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.3$0.275Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.125Exceeds the context window

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Grok 4.3 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.3Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
MakerxAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 30, 2026July 25, 2025
Context window1M128K
Input $/Mtok$1.25$0.45
Output $/Mtok$2.50$3.50
Coding index37.4Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it30
Cost per solved task$0.31Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.3 better than Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for coding?

Only Grok 4.3 has a coding score, 37.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.3 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Grok 4.3 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs $0.45 and $3.50. Cost per solved task is known for Grok 4.3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.3 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Grok 4.3, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.3 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 comparison based on?

43 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Grok 4.3's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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