Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 Plus in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 29.3 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 93.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.247.5
Released2025-04-092026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked3537

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding13791467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
WeirdML42.6%—
ALE-Bench—670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts13751449
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35147.65
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%93.3%
LMArena Math13861450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%26.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
Omni-MATH31.8%—
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond76.3%88.4%
LMArena Expert13951454
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Confabulations10.8%—
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English13521424
LMArena Chinese13871477
LMArena French13571455
LMArena German13491452
LMArena Japanese13421389
LMArena Korean13351379
LMArena Russian13531434
LMArena Spanish13811432

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13571425
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query13721439
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text13701437
LMArena Creative Writing13421404
LMArena Multi-Turn13551438
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
WildBench65.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.8 vs 40.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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