Alternatives to Qwen 4

These tools sit near Qwen 4. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

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Alternatives

If you need frontier capability now, compare GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Grok 4.7, and Kimi K3. For open weights today, Qwen3.8-Max and MiMo-V2.6 are the practical choices.

The honest read: Qwen 4 is a roadmap headline. Track the Apsara announcements, but do not plan a migration around a model that has not left the training run.

GPT-6 Astra

Models

OpenAI flagship GPT-6 Astra: 1.05M context, computer-use SOTA, $10/$50 per 1M tokens. API id gpt-6-astra.

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15000000DR: 95AS: 95

Claude Opus 5.5

Models

Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-5.1-level intelligence at $4/$20 per 1M tokens, 1M context, and day-one GitHub Copilot support.

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2500000DR: 92AS: 95

Grok 4.7

Models

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 flagship for coding and agents: 500K context, $1.60/$4.80 per 1M tokens, 46.4 on the Artificial Analysis index.

#xAI

12000000DR: 88AS: 90

Kimi K3

Models

Moonshot AI's open-weight 2.8T multimodal agentic model with 1M-token context, the world's first open 3T-class model rivaling closed frontier models.

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2500000DR: 70AS: 60

Qwen3.8-Max

Models

Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter open-weight flagship: 95B active MoE, text/image/video input, 1M context, at $2/$6 per million tokens.

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—DR: —AS: —

MiMo-V2.6

Models

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 open-weights series pairs a 1.02T-parameter omni MoE with a 309B Flash tier, both MIT licensed with 1M-token context.

#Mixture of Experts

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