The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
grok-2-1212 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·xAI vs Alibaba

grok-2-1212 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

grok-2-1212 profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
grok-2-1212 — xAI
Quality
#46 of 61
38based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#205 of 316
40.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#243 of 340
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#164 of 206
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#84 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, grok-2-1212 scores 38 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 55-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 2 published evaluations, with grok-2-1212 ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max only, at $2.21 per 1M tokens blended.

grok-2-1212 is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max 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: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 38 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.21
Output tok/s 40
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: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 38 93
Mathematics Index 38 95
Science Index 50 96
Reasoning Index 50
Agentic Index 88
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: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond54 / 92
MATH / AIME12 / 95

Right-hand figures read grok-2-1212 / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. grok-2-1212 leads on 0 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max 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.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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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: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $1.48
Output $/1M $4.42
Blended $/1M $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.295
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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: Qwen3.7 Max
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: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 40
Time to first token 1.4s
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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: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Alibaba · first party $2.21 44

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0) Full attribution →