Qwen vs X-ai

Battle of the providers: Comparing the frontier models from both Qwen and X-ai to find the best cost-to-performance leaders.

Cross-Provider Frontier Leaders

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning	1481	$0.000002	144
qwen3.5-397b-a17b	1450	$3.9e-7	50
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning	1431	$2e-7	88
qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507	1422	$7.1e-8	2
qwen3.5-flash	1402	$6.5e-8	86

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*