Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max for workflow automation
Grok 4.5 wins, 86–83
Same 12 workflow automation tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Grok 4.5 took 5 tasks, Qwen3.7 Max took 2, 5 tied. Tested 18 Aug 2026.
Where they differed most
An online florist's order process: order placed, payment taken, delivery slot allocated, courier label printed, confirmation email sent. The happy path is five minutes' work. Here are five things that actually happen. For each, write one line — exactly 5 bullets, in the order given, one line each, no sub-points — saying what the automation does, whether it retries, and whether it escalates to a person or resolves itself: 1) the card payment is declined after the order row has already been written; 2) the confirmation email hard-bounces; 3) the stem the customer ordered is out of stock at the time of picking, not at the time of ordering; 4) the courier's API returns a 500 while printing the label; 5) the customer replies to the no-reply confirmation address with 'please change the delivery date'.
- Payment decline after order write: automation voids/cancels the order row and releases stock, retries payment once on transient codes then marks failed, resolves itself without person unless customer retries. - Confirmation email hard-bounce: automation flags the address invalid and logs the bounce, no retry on hard bounce, escalates to person for contact-data fix while order continues. - Stem out of stock at picking: automation substitutes per rules or holds the order and notifies, no blind retry of same stem, escalates to person for custome…
- The automation updates the order status to payment failed and halts downstream processing, does not retry the charge, and resolves itself by triggering an automated email prompting the customer to update their payment details without human escalation. - The automation flags the email address as invalid in the database and halts further email dispatches, does not retry sending to the bounced address, and escalates the issue to a customer service agent to contact the buyer via phone or alternative channels to obtain a valid email. - The automat…
Task by task
| Task | Grok 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| The MOT reminder nobody sends | 8 | 8 |
| The spec, as JSON | 8 | 8 |
| Where the human stays | 8 | 8 |
| The unhappy paths are the job | 8 | 9 |
| Do not automate this | 10 | 9 |
| It fired twice | 8 | 9 |
| The spreadsheet that runs the business | 9 | 8 |
| The alert that wakes someone up | 9 | 9 |
| How long it really takes | 9 | 8 |
| No API, no chance? | 9 | 8 |
| Rules, not guesses | 8 | 8 |
| Refuse the scraper | 9 | 8 |
Full receipts: Grok 4.5, Qwen3.7 Max · judges claude-sonnet-5, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra
Questions people ask
Which is better for workflow automation: Grok 4.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?
Grok 4.5 — it scored 86/100 against 83/100 on our 12-task workflow automation suite, winning 5 tasks to 2 with 5 tied. Every answer was marked blind by three judges from three rival AI labs.
How was this tested?
Both models answered the identical published workflow automation tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.
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Full ranking: Best AI for workflow automation · model pages: Grok 4.5, Qwen3.7 Max