Model A

xAI

67.13/100

Supported · Public rank #31

90% interval 58.5–75.8

Grok 4.20 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Updated September 10, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

Model B

Qwen3.7 Plus

Alibaba

61.56/100

Supported · Public rank #54

90% interval 50.7–72.4

Decision reading

Grok 4.20 has the higher public score estimate, 67.13 versus 61.56, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.

10 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

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Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus leads on the public agentic lane, 37.3 to 26.7, with Supported evidence for both models, although the 90% intervals overlap.
Confidence: limited
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Grok 4.20
Grok 4.20 has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented

Show secondary and unsupported calls

Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
Qwen3.7 Plus is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: rate-fallback
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

13 Grok 4.20 only

10 Shared

42 Qwen3.7 Plus only

Shared results: 10
Grok 4.20 only: 13
Qwen3.7 Plus only: 42
Like-for-like categories: 2 / 8

2 categories rest on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.

Agentic

Like-for-like

Grok 4.20: 26.7; Supported · #145/152
Qwen3.7 Plus: 37.3; Supported · #126/152
Basis: BenchAlign lane · 4 vs 11 public rows
Reading: Qwen3.7 Plus leads · intervals overlap

Multimodal

Like-for-like

Grok 4.20: 34.6; #43/48
Qwen3.7 Plus: 72.5; #18/48
Basis: Provisional lane · 2 vs 2 weighted rows
Reading: Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Coding

Directional only

Grok 4.20: 28.2; Supported · #141/151
Qwen3.7 Plus: 52.5; Estimated · #46/151
Basis: BenchAlign lane · 6 vs 7 public rows
Reading: Directional only

Knowledge

Directional only

Grok 4.20: 49.4; Supported · #85/183
Qwen3.7 Plus: 56.2; Estimated · #49/183
Basis: BenchAlign lane · 6 vs 7 public rows
Reading: Directional only

Reasoning

Not comparable

Grok 4.20: 34.2; Unranked · 2 rankable rows
Qwen3.7 Plus: 74.0; Unranked · 3 rankable rows
Basis: Provisional lane · 2 vs 1 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Math

Not comparable

Grok 4.20: Not ranked
Qwen3.7 Plus: 78.3; Unranked · 3 rankable rows
Basis: Provisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable

Grok 4.20: Not ranked
Qwen3.7 Plus: 78.9; #3/12
Basis: Provisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable

Grok 4.20: Not ranked
Qwen3.7 Plus: 91.1; #17/123
Basis: Provisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows
Reading: Not comparable

Category scores with the server-provided evidence basis for Grok 4.20 and Qwen3.7 Plus
Category	Grok 4.20	Qwen3.7 Plus	Basis	Reading
Agentic	26.7Supported · #145/152	37.3Supported · #126/152	Like-for-likeBenchAlign lane · 4 vs 11 public rows	Qwen3.7 Plus leads · intervals overlap
Multimodal	34.6#43/48	72.5#18/48	Like-for-likeProvisional lane · 2 vs 2 weighted rows	Qwen3.7 Plus leads
Coding	28.2Supported · #141/151	52.5Estimated · #46/151	Directional onlyBenchAlign lane · 6 vs 7 public rows	Directional only
Knowledge	49.4Supported · #85/183	56.2Estimated · #49/183	Directional onlyBenchAlign lane · 6 vs 7 public rows	Directional only
Reasoning	34.2Unranked · 2 rankable rows	74.0Unranked · 3 rankable rows	Not comparableProvisional lane · 2 vs 1 weighted rows	Not comparable
Math	Not ranked	78.3Unranked · 3 rankable rows	Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows	Not comparable
Multilingual	Not ranked	78.9#3/12	Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows	Not comparable
Instruction following	Not ranked	91.1#17/123	Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows	Not comparable

Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.

CharXiv
Multimodal
Grok 4.20: 60.9%Qwen3.7 Plus: 85.9%Normalized gap 25.0Grok 4.20 source Qwen3.7 Plus source
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic
Grok 4.20: 47.1%Qwen3.7 Plus: 70.3%Normalized gap 23.2Grok 4.20 source Qwen3.7 Plus source
SWE-bench Pro
Coding
Grok 4.20: 51.8%Qwen3.7 Plus: 57.6%Normalized gap 5.8Grok 4.20 source Qwen3.7 Plus source
MMMU-Pro
Multimodal
Grok 4.20: 75.2%Qwen3.7 Plus: 79%Normalized gap 3.8Grok 4.20 source Qwen3.7 Plus source
SWE-bench Verified
Coding
Grok 4.20: 76.7%Qwen3.7 Plus: 77.7%Normalized gap 1.0Grok 4.20 source Qwen3.7 Plus source

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Grok 4.20: $0.005; Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.20: $0.118; Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.20: $0.5; Fits in one request; Cached input priced at the published list-input rate
Qwen3.7 Plus: API rate not published; Fits in one request; Cached-input rate unavailable

Grok 4.20 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate. Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

SpecificationGrok 4.20Qwen3.7 Plus

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Grok 4.20

Qwen3.7 Plus

API model ID

Grok 4.20

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Grok 4.20

Not published

Qwen3.7 Plus

No comparable hosted API rate

Documented inputs

Grok 4.20

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Grok 4.20

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Provider availability

Grok 4.20

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Grok 4.20

Reasoning

Qwen3.7 Plus

Reasoning

Weight access

Grok 4.20

Proprietary

Qwen3.7 Plus

Proprietary

License

Grok 4.20

Proprietary

Qwen3.7 Plus

Proprietary

Release date

Grok 4.20

2026-03-10

Qwen3.7 Plus

2026-06-03

If you already use one of these models

Deployment change: The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal: Grok 4.20 has the higher public score estimate, 67.13 versus 61.56, but the 90% score intervals overlap.
Workload cost: A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff: Grok 4.20 has the larger documented window (2M).

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence65 rows

Agentic

Terminal-Bench 2.0
Grok 4.2047.1%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus70.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
DeepSearchQA
Grok 4.2062.8%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
Gert Labs
Grok 4.2038.36%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Grok 4.2044.2%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus52.8%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
QwenClawBench
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus61.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus62.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
BFCL v4
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus72.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus73.2%
Source
Not directly comparable
VITA-Bench
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus45.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
DeepPlanning
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus62.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
OSWorld-Verified
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus73.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
AndroidWorld
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus81.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.0
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus2.8%
Source
Not directly comparable

Coding

LiveCodeBench Pro
Grok 4.2074.2%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Grok 4.2076.7%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus77.7%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
SWE-bench Pro
Grok 4.2051.8%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus57.6%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
Vibe Code Bench
Grok 4.204.06%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Grok 4.2084.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
Grok 4.2072.2%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus70.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus75.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus41.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
SciCode
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus51.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus89.6%
Source
Not directly comparable

Reasoning

ARC-AGI-2
Grok 4.2053.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
ARC-AGI-3
Grok 4.200.1%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
CritPt
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus9.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
MRCRv2
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus91.7%
Source
Not directly comparable

Knowledge

GPQA-D
Grok 4.2088.5%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
HLE w/o tools
Grok 4.2031.6%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Hard
Grok 4.2020.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (Text)
Grok 4.2050.2%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Grok 4.2088.6%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Grok 4.2086.3%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus—
Not directly comparable
GPQA
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
HLE
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus34.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus88.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Redux
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus94.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
SuperGPQA
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus71.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMMLU
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus89.0%
Source
Not directly comparable

Math

HMMT Feb 2026
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus92.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
IMOAnswerBench
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus86.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
Apex
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus22.7%
Source
Not directly comparable

Multilingual

MMLU-ProX
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus85.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
NOVA-63
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus58.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
INCLUDE
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus83.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
MAXIFE
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus88.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
PolyMath
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus84.0%
Source
Not directly comparable

Multimodal

MMMU-Pro
Grok 4.2075.2%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus79%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
CharXiv
Grok 4.2060.9%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus85.9%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
ERQA
Grok 4.2054.1%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus69.8%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
SimpleVQA
Grok 4.2057.4%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus81.7%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
MedXpertQA (MM)
Grok 4.2065.8%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus71.0%
Source
Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result
MathVision
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
ScreenSpot Pro
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus79.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMSearch-Plus
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus41.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
RealWorldQA
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus86.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus91.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
OCRBench V2
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus70.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
ODINW13
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus51.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus88.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus85.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus87.4%
Source
Not directly comparable

Instruction following

IFEval
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus94.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
IFBench
Grok 4.20—
Qwen3.7 Plus79.1%
Source
Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Grok 4.20 has the higher public score estimate, 67.13 versus 61.56, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher for coding on the public lane, 52.5 to 28.2. Qwen3.7 Plus is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for coding from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus leads the public agentic tasks lane, 37.3 to 26.7, with Supported evidence for both models, although the 90% intervals overlap.

Which costs less, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Grok 4.20 has the larger documented context window: 2M, compared with 1M.

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Grok 4.20 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Which one for your work

Agentic work

Long documents

Coding work

Chat turn cost

Cache-heavy agent loop cost

Repository review cost

What is actually comparable

Category results, on a stated basis

Agentic

Multimodal

Coding

Knowledge

Reasoning

Math

Multilingual

Instruction following

Shape of the matched evidence

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Cache-heavy agent loop

Specification differences

Context window

API model ID

Cached-input rate

Documented inputs

Documented outputs

Provider availability

Reasoning profile

Weight access

License

Release date

Benchmark evidence

Agentic

Coding

Reasoning

Knowledge

Math

Multilingual

Multimodal

Instruction following

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Which is better for coding, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Which costs less, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Which has the larger context window, Grok 4.20 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Related comparisons

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