Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Qwen2.5-Max

Grok-3 mini and Qwen2.5-Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 40.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 25.6 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 10.8% for Grok-3 mini and 21.8% for Qwen2.5-Max.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.240.7
Released2025-04-092025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3527

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding13791359
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
WeirdML42.6%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13751360
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35132.53
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math13861369
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
Omni-MATH31.8%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
Confabulations10.8%21.8%
LMArena Expert13951337
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English13521352
LMArena Chinese13871382
LMArena French13571396
LMArena German13491350
LMArena Japanese13421300
LMArena Korean13351304
LMArena Russian13531353
LMArena Spanish13811377

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following13571335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query13721358
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Max leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text13701367
LMArena Creative Writing13421339
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%72.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13551364
WildBench65.1%—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Grok-3 mini and Qwen2.5-Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 40.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen2.5-Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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