Models

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Grok 4.5

Output tokens cost $1.10 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Input tokens cost $0.27 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.27 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5. Context lengths are 131,000 tokens on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.1s on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 1.7s on Grok 4.5. Measured output throughput is 41.7 tok/s on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 26.2 tok/s on Grok 4.5. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct scores 1466 and Grok 4.5 scores 1523.

QwenBai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructGrokGrok 4.5
Qwen logo
Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen · → text

The Qwen3 series open-source models include hybrid models, thinking models, and non-thinking models, with both reasoning capabilities and general abilities reaching industry SOTA levels at the same scale.

Input$0.27 /M
Output$1.10 /M
Grok logo
Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$6.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$0.27
$2.00
Output /M
$1.10
$6.00
Cache read /M
$0.27
$0.50
Context length
131,000
500,000
Max output
0
500,000
Time to First Token
1.1 s
1.7 s
Throughput
41.7 tok/s
26.2 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
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July 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
bai-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructgrok-4.5
1340140014601520
Overall
14151470
Coding
14661523
Math
14111478
Hard prompts
14401495
Instruction following
14141466
Multi-turn
14261477
Creative writing
13621449
Longer query
14251485
Chinese
14551511
English
14271475
Vision
bai-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructgrok-4.5
1180124013001360
Overall
12151282
OCR
12301295
Diagram
12391321
Homework
12601328

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
$32.88 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, Grok 4.5?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $1.10/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.5: 1523; Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts 131,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 41.7 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 26.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Grok 4.5 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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