Models

Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3 VL Plus

Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Qwen3 VL Plus from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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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
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Qwen3 VL Plus
Qwen · text, image, video → text

The Qwen3 series visual understanding model achieves an effective fusion of thinking and non-thinking modes. Its visual agent capabilities reach world-class levels on public test sets such as OS World. This version features comprehensive upgrades in visual coding, spatial perception, and multimodal reasoning; visual perception and recognition abilities are greatly enhanced, supporting ultra-long video understanding.

Input$0.14 /M
Output$1.37 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Grok 4.5
Qwen3 VL Plus
Input /M
$2.00
$0.14
Output /M
$6.00
$1.37
Cache read /M
$0.50
$0.03
Context length
500,000
256,000
Max output
500,000
32,000
Time to First Token
1.7 s
2.3 s
Throughput
30.7 tok/s
66.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
July 2026
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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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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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Cost calculator

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

Qwen3 VL Plus
$28.77 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Grok 4.5, Qwen3 VL Plus?

Qwen3 VL Plus: $1.37/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Grok 4.5: 1.7s 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?

Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Qwen3 VL Plus accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Plus.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3 VL Plus at 66.5 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 30.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Qwen3 VL Plus accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Qwen3 VL Plus 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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