Model comparison
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 38.8 to 20.8.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2024-08-13 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1440 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1428 |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | — |
| DTBench | 65.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1287 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | 1435 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1389 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.