As of August 30, 2026, Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning is 61% cheaper per million tokens than QwQ-32B. Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning is $0.20 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens versus QwQ-32B at $0.90 / $0.90. Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://fireworks.ai/pricing
Sources: xAI API pricing (https://docs.x.ai/docs/models); Fireworks pricing (https://fireworks.ai/pricing)
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning
xAI
Input
$0.20
Output
$0.50
QwQ-32B
Qwen
Input
$0.90
Output
$0.90
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Grok-4 Fast Non-ReasoningQwQ-32BVerdict
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning offers significantly lower pricing, while QwQ-32B leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 30, 2026, Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning is 61% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens ($0.70 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). QwQ-32B costs $0.90 / $0.90 per million tokens ($1.80 blended). Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://fireworks.ai/pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning xAI API pricing is $0.20 input and $0.50 output per million tokens via xAI. QwQ-32B Fireworks API pricing is $0.90 input and $0.90 output per million tokens via Fireworks. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
QwQ-32B leads on LiveCodeBench: Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning at 46.1% vs QwQ-32B at 63.4%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning supports a 2M token context window, while QwQ-32B supports 131K tokens. Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
QwQ-32B leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning and QwQ-32B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning through xAI and QwQ-32B through Fireworks with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published xAI API pricing and Fireworks API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://fireworks.ai/pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning supports up to 30K output tokens per request, while QwQ-32B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning has a measured throughput of approximately 90 tokens/second. Throughput data for QwQ-32B is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning or QwQ-32B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning costs $0.20/M input and $0.50/M output. QwQ-32B costs $0.90/M input and $0.90/M output via Fireworks.
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