The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
grok-2-1212 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ·xAI vs Alibaba

grok-2-1212 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — head-to-head comparison

grok-2-1212 profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus profile All comparisons
grok-2-1212 — xAI
Quality
#46 of 61
38based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
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Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
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per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
—
tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — Alibaba
Quality
#18 of 61
78based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#171 of 316
47.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#167 of 340
$0.73
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.33 · Out $1.95
Cache hit price
#63 of 206
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−85%)
Context
#54 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, grok-2-1212 scores 38 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus scores 78 — a 39-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus. They share 2 published evaluations, with grok-2-1212 ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus only, at $0.73 per 1M tokens blended.

grok-2-1212 is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is proprietary. 1 tracked host serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Known Good Index 38 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 78 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M — $0.73
Output tok/s — 47
Context window — 1.00M
Providers 0 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Known Good Index 38 78
Mathematics Index 38 91
Science Index 50 91
Reasoning Index 50 —
Agentic Index — 51
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = grok-2-1212 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond54 / 87
MATH / AIME12 / 91

Right-hand figures read grok-2-1212 / Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus. grok-2-1212 leads on 0 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Text Arena — 1,437
Text Arena (style controlled) — 1,444
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Input $/1M — $0.33
Output $/1M — $1.95
Blended $/1M — $0.73
Cache read $/1M — $0.050
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Context window — 1.00M
Max output tokens — 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricgrok-2-1212Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Output tokens/s — 47
Time to first token — 1.0s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider grok-2-1212 blendedgrok-2-1212 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus tok/s
Alibaba · first party — — $0.73 53

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →