Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok-3 mini leads 42.1 to 19.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 8.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.231.9
Released2025-04-092024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked3543

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Category by category

Coding Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML42.6%16%
LMArena Coding13791292
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13751271
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35129
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%8.1%
Omni-MATH31.8%33%
LMArena Math13861283
MATH Level 590.9%63.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond76.3%49.1%
MMLU-Pro79.9%63.1%
Confabulations10.8%19.1%
GPQA (HELM)67.5%42.6%
LMArena Expert13951245
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
MMLU—85.3%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13521252
LMArena Chinese13871272
LMArena French13571280
LMArena German13491234
LMArena Japanese13421180
LMArena Korean13351188
LMArena Russian13531264
LMArena Spanish13811256

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval95.1%80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following13571254

Long Context Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13721282
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text13701269
LMArena Creative Writing13421221
WildBench65.1%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn13551272
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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