Output tokens cost $16.50 per million on Grok 4 and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $3.30 per million on Grok 4 and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.83 per million on Grok 4 and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on Grok 4 and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.7s on Grok 4 and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 54.5 tok/s on Grok 4 and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Grok 4 scores 1436 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.
Grok 4
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewGrok, their latest and greatest flagship model, offers unparalleled performance in natural language, math, and reasoning – the perfect jack of all trades. The current pointing model version is grok-4-0709.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Grok 4: $16.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Grok 4: 1436 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Grok 4 accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Grok 4 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Grok 4 at 54.5 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Grok 4 accepts text and image input and supports function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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