Grok Build 0.1 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

x-ai · A · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.00
Output / 1M
$2.00
AA index
27.2
proprietary · 256K context
qwen · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.33
Output / 1M
$1.95
AA index
27
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Grok Build 0.1 Qwen3.6 Plus
Deployment API-only (closed weights) API-only (closed weights)
Parameters n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Architecture n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Context length 256,000 1,000,000
Licence Proprietary Proprietary
Commercial use Per API terms Per API terms
Languages n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Downloads all time n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Gated n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $1.00 $0.33
API output price / 1M tokens $2.00 $1.95
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.00 $2.28
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.20 —
AA Intelligence Index 27.2 27
AA Coding Index 51.5 54.5
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 230,400 65,536
API providers 1 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Grok Build 0.1 $3.00
Qwen3.6 Plus $2.28

Qwen3.6 Plus is 1.3× cheaper at list price.

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