Grok 4.6 (Medium) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Grok 4.6 (Medium) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct. 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
AlibabaQwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
7.90
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)Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)42.87.9−81.5% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 81.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$1,557.04Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)34.32s21.04s−38.7% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 38.7% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$2.00 / $6.00$0.35 / $0.60
Input modalitiesText, ImageText, Image
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