Model comparison
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 45.6% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 23.3% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-08-13 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1276 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | 119.49 |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | 46.2% |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| DTBench | 65.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1251 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1221 |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1228 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | — |
| LMArena German | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | — |
Instruction Following Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1223 |
Long Context Too close to call
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | 23.3% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.