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Qwen3.6-Plus vs Grok 4.6

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen3.6-Plus
alibaba/qwen3.6-plus
Grok 4.6
xai/grok-4.6
Provider
Alibaba
xAI
Family
Grok 4
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
500,000 tok
Max output
65,536 tok
32,768 tok
Released
2026-04-01
2026-08-12
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$0.500 /1M
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$3.00 /1M
$6.00 /1M
Tools
yes
—
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
—
Reasoning
yes
—
Prompt caching
—
—
Batch API
—
—
Try it
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Qwen3.6-Plus
alibaba/qwen3.6-plus
Full spec →
Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Grok 4.6
xai/grok-4.6
Full spec →

xAI's Grok 4.6, a flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and visual work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling and structured outputs.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.6
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GPT-5.4 vs Grok 4.6
openai/gpt-5.4 · xai/grok-4.6
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen3.6-Plus
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.6-plus",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Grok 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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