Head to head

Qwen 3.8 Max vs Grok 4.7

Price, context, inputs and filters. No benchmarks theatre.

Both cost about the same per message.

Qwen 3.8 Max holds 2× more context.

Fact

Made by

Alibaba

X-AI

Content tier

Open

Intelligence

Brilliant

Price per message

~5.33 credits≈ 18 messages for $1

Context window

1M tokens≈ 1,538 pages of text in one go

500K tokens≈ 769 pages of text in one go

Reads

Text, Images, Video

Text, Images

Writes

Text

Tool use

Yes - search, memory, code and more

Served via

OpenRouter, Unbottled AI

Status

Current

A typical message: 16K tokens in, 1.5K out. Short replies cost less. 1 credit = $0.01.