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Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Grok 4.7 leads Qwen3.6 Plus on coding, 66.7 to 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 Plus costs 3.1x less per output token ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 63 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Grok 4.7 Replace Qwen3.6 Plus
Grok 4.7xAI
Coding
66.7
Overall
66.6
Output $/M
$6.00
35
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
44.1
Overall
56.2
Output $/M
$1.95
28
vs boards won of 63 shared

Grok 4.7 or Qwen3.6 Plus: which to pick

Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 500K tokens).

Model AGrok 4.7xAI66.7/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 PlusQwen44.1/1003 independent benchmarks$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
63
Grok 4.7 only
36
Qwen3.6 Plus only
20
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 4.7 66.7 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 27.6 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Grok 4.7 86.2% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 60.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.7 $6.00 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 3.1x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.7 takes 500K tokens, Qwen3.6 Plus 1M.

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 4.7BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding82
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning43
Math22
Knowledge34
Web design60
General517
All shared boards3528
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index82
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena WebDev16371461Grok 4.7
AA Coding IndexNot measured54.5Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured86.0%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured73.4%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)28.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)86.2%25.6%Grok 4.7
Code migration (Vals AI)44.8%11.1%Grok 4.7
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.5%0.0%Grok 4.7
IOI (Vals AI)57.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)73.4%53.2%Grok 4.7
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)42.9%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)69.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
SciCode57.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured43.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
FrontierCode47.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
FrontierSWE29.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured670.1Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text: coding14321467Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: software and IT14211462Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena WebDev: React16631454Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev: HTML16271463Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev: from an image15861472Grok 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index46.427.0Grok 4.7
Epoch Capabilities Index154.4147.3Grok 4.7
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LiveBench research86.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LiveBench browser60.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LiveBench long agentic50.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
SREBench (Vals AI)3.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)52.3%40.9%Grok 4.7
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)34.2%7.7%Grok 4.7
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)47.1%14.9%Grok 4.7
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)18.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)67.0%32.9%Grok 4.7
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)69.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)10.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Vals Science Index34.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Robo-bench (Vals AI)0.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured97.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
APEX-Agents54.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Vending-Bench 2$10,537$5,115Grok 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index43
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured87.4%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LiveBench reasoning82.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)25.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured84.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured88.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)43.1%27.8%Grok 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)92.7%88.4%Grok 4.7
ARC-AGI90.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ARC-AGI-261.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Chess puzzles41.0%14.0%Grok 4.7
Mystery game puzzles29.0%12.0%Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: hard prompts14151448Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: expert14391454Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14271455Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision: diagrams1254Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1309Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIMENot measured94.6%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
OTIS Mock AIME98.1%93.3%Grok 4.7
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 353.0%38.2%Grok 4.7
FrontierMath, tier 417.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
ProofBench26.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: math14141449Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: mathematical work14351448Qwen3.6 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index34
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU ProNot measured87.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.4%84.2%Grok 4.7
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured61.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured74.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured68.0%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.5%36.9%Grok 4.7
SimpleQA Verified56.0%44.1%Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: science14191439Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13951442Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: legal and government14231437Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: business and finance13891430Qwen3.6 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12551243Grok 4.7
Design Arena: UI components12751230Grok 4.7
Design Arena: game dev13141211Grok 4.7
Design Arena: data viz12381228Grok 4.7
Design Arena: 3D12741202Grok 4.7
Design Arena: all code categories12731236Grok 4.7
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1161Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1113Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LiveBench design78.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index517
General benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Vals Index58.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LiveBench data analysis76.9%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)65.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)40.8%44.9%Qwen3.6 Plus
MedScribe (Vals AI)89.4%77.0%Grok 4.7
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
IFBenchNot measured75.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)80.0%78.3%Grok 4.7
DTBench96.0%81.9%Grok 4.7
LMCA49.4%33.1%Grok 4.7
CL-benchNot measured20.3%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Furniture assembly20.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Text13991436Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: instruction following14061424Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: creative writing13811404Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision1231Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: English14111445Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: non-English13861424Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Chinese14491477Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: German13661451Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese13591390Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Korean13831379Grok 4.7
LMArena Text: French14311455Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Spanish14061432Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Russian13991434Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Polish14201433Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: multi-turn13941438Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: longer queries14161439Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: writing and language13941418Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13761402Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision: English1229Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1250Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1241Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1217Not measuredOnly Grok 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
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 4.7$0.0050Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.7$0.118Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.7$0.460Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.085Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus 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 4.7 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.7Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerxAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window500K1M
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.325
Output $/Mtok$6.00$1.95
Coding index66.744.1
Independent measurements behind it53
Cost per solved taskNot computable$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.7 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.95 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 500K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Grok 4.7 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.6 Plus only.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.7 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus, with 1M tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?

63 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Grok 4.7's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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