# Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3.8-Max

Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max charge the same per token: $2 per million tokens read and $6 per million written. The bill can still differ, because the same text can be a different number of tokens on each. Below are both price lists, 8 everyday jobs priced on each, and the count for one text.

- Page, with a calculator for your own job: https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/grok-4-7-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Makers: Grok 4.7 from xAI, Qwen3.8-Max from Alibaba

## Price per million tokens, in US dollars

| | Grok 4.7 | Qwen3.8-Max |
| --- | --: | --: |
| Input | $2 | $2 |
| Cached input | $0.50 | $0.25 |
| Cache write | not listed | not listed |
| Output | $6 | $6 |
| Blend, 3 read for each 1 written | $3 | $3 |
| Batch input | not listed | not listed |
| Batch output | not listed | not listed |
| Long prompt input (above 200K on Grok 4.7) | $4 | $2 |
| Long prompt output | $12 | $6 |
| Context window, tokens | 500K | not listed |
| Capability score (Epoch Capabilities Index; GPT-5 is 150) | 154 | 157 |
| Longest answer, tokens | not listed | not listed |

## The same text, counted by each maker

Our lesson "How AI writes" (https://tecyfy.com/learn/how-ai-works/how-ai-writes), about 1,700 words of English:

- Grok 4.7: about 2,100 tokens. xAI publishes neither its tokenizer nor a rule for estimating. The figure is OpenAI's o200k_base count, a rough guide only.
- Qwen3.8-Max: about 2,100 tokens. Counted with the tokenizer Alibaba publishes with its open Qwen3.8 models. Alibaba does not say its API models use the same one, so the count is marked as about.

## What 8 everyday jobs cost a month on each

Each job at its usual runs a day, for 30 days, at the standard price.

| Job | Tokens in, out, runs a day | Grok 4.7 | Qwen3.8-Max |
| --- | --- | --: | --: |
| A chat question | 300, 500, 100 | $10.80 | $10.80 |
| A hard question, with thinking | 300, 1,400, 100 | $27.00 | $27.00 |
| A long report, summarised | 60,000, 2,000, 20 | $79.20 | $79.20 |
| A 40-turn agent task | 2,800,000, 40,000, 10 | $618 | $429 |
| A support bot's reply | 4,000, 300, 2,000 | $408 | $378 |
| Sort a message into a category | 250, 5, 50,000 | $795 | $795 |
| Read an invoice into fields | 1,500, 250, 1,000 | $135 | $135 |
| Review a pull request | 25,000, 4,500, 50 | $116 | $116 |

## Questions

### Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or Qwen3.8-Max?

Per token, neither: both charge $2 per million tokens read and $6 per million written. The same text can still be a different number of tokens on each, so the bills can differ.

### Which is better, Grok 4.7 or Qwen3.8-Max?

On the Epoch Capabilities Index, an independent score from Epoch AI that combines over 50 benchmarks, Qwen3.8-Max scores 157 and Grok 4.7 154, above the top of the range of doubt around Grok 4.7's score (GPT-5 is 150). One score is an average; test both on your own work before you switch.

### What does a support bot cost a month on Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max?

At 2,000 replies a day, each reading 4,000 tokens (50 percent of them from cache) and writing 300, it costs $408 a month on Grok 4.7 and $378 on Qwen3.8-Max: Grok 4.7 costs 1.1 times as much for this job.

### What does an AI agent task cost on Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max?

One 40-turn task that reads 2,800,000 tokens in all, 90 percent of them from cache, and writes 40,000, costs $2.06 on Grok 4.7 and $1.43 on Qwen3.8-Max. At 10 tasks a day that is $618 and $429 a month.

### Does the same text take the same number of tokens on Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max?

No. Our lesson "How AI writes", 1,700 words long, is about 2,100 tokens on Grok 4.7 and about 2,100 on Qwen3.8-Max. Each maker cuts text its own way, and every extra token is paid for at the model's price.

### Can I pay less on Grok 4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max for work that can wait?

Not with a batch price: neither maker's price page lists one for these models. A cache still lowers the price of text the model reads again.

## Sources

- [xAI: API prices](https://docs.x.ai/docs/models)
- [Alibaba: API prices](https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/api)
- [Epoch Capabilities Index, by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci)

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