# Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-4-6-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has the lower published output-token price.
- Grok 4.6 has the larger published context window at 500K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 500K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 67.92 | 64.23 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 20 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $6.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 68.4 (Supported · #9/123)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 59.5 (Estimated · #24/123)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 26.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 57.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 13% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | 57.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 55.7% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 51.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #21/146)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 52.4 (Supported · #37/146)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 27.0 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 65.9% | 58.7% | Grok 4.6 |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 61.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 25.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 88.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 41.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.1% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 61.5 (#25/28)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 80.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 87.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 67.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 2.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 87.7 (#8/54)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 69.8 (Supported · #16/177)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 59.4 (Supported · #47/177)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 91.2 (#22/127)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.6 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 51.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [Grok 4.6 profile](/models/grok-4-6)
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