Model comparison

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 vs Qwen3 14B

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 xAI

37.7

Rank #198 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads 24.8 to 18.5.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and Qwen3 14B specifications
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.735.5
Released2024-08-132025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1712

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 37.0 (#199), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding1269—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 24.8 (#159), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1255—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 35.4 (#185), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1265—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 33.9 (#200), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1238—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 41.4 (#208), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1257—
LMArena Chinese1262—
LMArena French1286—
LMArena German1273—
LMArena Japanese1213—
LMArena Korean1195—
LMArena Russian1261—
LMArena Spanish1279—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 65.5 (#220), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1245—

Long Context Too close to call

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 38.4 (#196), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1266—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 47.3 (#211), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 2 Mini 2024 08 13Qwen3 14B
LMArena Text1281—
LMArena Creative Writing1242—
LMArena Multi-Turn1265—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 better than Qwen3 14B?

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.0 vs 37.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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