Grok 4.3 vs Qwen 3 Max

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	Grok 4.3 xAI's flagship API model, billed as its most intelligent and fastest, with strong agentic tool calling.	Qwen 3 Max Alibaba's open-weights frontier model; very strong on Chinese + code.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ Aggressive pricing ($1.25 input / $2.50 output per million tokens) for a 1M-context flagship + Vendor-reported leadership in agentic tool calling and instruction following + Companion multi-agent variant (grok-4.20-multi-agent) targeted at agentic workloads	+ Open weights + Best-in-class for Chinese-language workloads + Strong on coding benchmarks
Tradeoffs	− Stated knowledge cutoff of November 2024 is older than competing flagships − Rapid model churn; xAI retired eight legacy models (including grok-3) in May 2026, so pinned integrations need active migration	− Inference infra is the team's problem
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