Grok 4.6 (Medium) vs Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B

Grok 4.6 (Medium) vs Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

SpaceXAIGrok 4.6 (Medium)Off the frontier
Intelligence
42.80
Total cost
$1557
AlibabaQwen2.5 Instruct 72BNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
7.70
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricGrok 4.6 (Medium)Qwen2.5 Instruct 72BDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)42.87.7−82.0% Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B is 82.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$1,557.04Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)33.09s24.79s−25.1% Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B is 25.1% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$2.00 / $6.00$0.47 / $0.49
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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