Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Qwen3 32B
Grok 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 32B in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Grok 3 leads 52.3 to 45.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 58.3% for Grok 3 and 74.2% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 39.2 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | 40% |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1358 |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 54.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1334 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 138.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
Math Qwen3 32B leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1399 |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| 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), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1362 |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1305 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Qwen3 32B leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1331 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3 32B?
Grok 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 3 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3 32B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.