Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.4

Rank #233 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 36.0 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 11.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.438.5
Released2024-08-132025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked3432

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML22.2%29.8%
LMArena Coding12881416
SciCode—33.3%
LiveBench Coding46.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts12721398
DTBench65.2%69.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.48139.63
SimpleBench22.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning54.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%—
LMCA—22.4%
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202511.5%70.3%
LMArena Math12831394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
LiveBench Math54.9%—
MATH Level 563.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond53.8%70.1%
Confabulations20.1%12.3%
LMArena Expert12541395

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12821372
LMArena Chinese12891434
LMArena French13171419
LMArena German12871379
LMArena Japanese12441338
LMArena Korean12371333
LMArena Russian12861369
LMArena Spanish12811403

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following12701364
LiveBench Instruction Following69.6%—

Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12761379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text13051384
LMArena Creative Writing12841318
Short-Story Creative Writing63.6%75.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12901378
LiveBench Language45.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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