Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.2 to 17.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | 7.8% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 118.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
Math Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 34.1% |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 84.9% | 73.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.