$ diff qwen-3-8-27b grok-4-6
Qwen 3.8 27B vs Grok 4.6
Values come from Qwen 3.8 27B and Grok 4.6, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Alibaba QwenQwen 3.8 27B
- context
- 262K
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
- context
- 500K
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
What actually differs
- Context window
- Grok 4.6 takes 500K against 262K — modestly more room in a single request.
- Weights
- Qwen 3.8 27B publishes weights (Apache 2.0); Grok 4.6 is API-only. That decides self-hosting, air-gapped deployment and fine-tuning before any capability question does.
- Recency
- Qwen 3.8 27B shipped 7 days after Grok 4.6 (2026-08-14 vs 2026-08-07).
Full spec
| Attribute | Qwen 3.8 27B | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Alibaba Qwen | xAI |
| Released | 2026-08-14 | 2026-08-07 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens (native; reported extensible to ~1M via YaRN) | 500,000 tokens |
| Pricing | not recorded | $2/M input · $6/M output; a request reaching 200K tokens re-prices in full at $4.00/M input · $1.00/M cached input · $12.00/M output |
| License | Apache 2.0 | proprietary |
| Availability | Hugging Face (`Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`, `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8`), ModelScope | API |