Grok 4.6 (Medium) vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Which is better for the money: Grok 4.6 (Medium) by SpaceXAI or Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Grok 4.6 (Medium)
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B vs Grok 4.6 (Medium): 6.8% less intelligence, 69.0% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 90.6% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Grok 4.6 (Medium) | Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 42.8 | 39.9 | −6.8% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 6.8% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $1,557.04 | $2,632.05 | +69.0% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 69.0% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 34.32s | 65.43s | +90.6% Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is 90.6% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $2.00 / $6.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Grok 4.6 (Medium) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.
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