Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3 Coder Plus

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus is cheaper at $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.6.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 500K.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.9—
Released2026-08-122025-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K1.05M
Max output500K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2$1
Output $ / M tokens$6$5
Results tracked491

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
ALE-Bench1,508456.5
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
LMArena Coding1465—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
APEX-Agents65.3%—
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1447—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1423—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
LMArena Expert1467—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1480—
LMArena French1461—
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1376—
LMArena Korean1397—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1404—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Longer Query1454—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1428—
LMArena Multi-Turn1425—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Qwen3 Coder Plus is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Grok 4.6 lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Coder Plus does, with 1.05M tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Qwen3 Coder Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Plus has 1.

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