Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 33.7 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

Side by side

Grok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.942.5
Released2025-04-092026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked4032

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding14321412
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1244
WeirdML37.2%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
BALROG29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts14341403
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33143.98
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%

Math Too close to call

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%84.4%
LMArena Math13911407
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond75.8%82.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%10.5%
LMArena Expert14211407
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English14101385
LMArena Chinese14481446
LMArena French14601412
LMArena German14311390
LMArena Japanese13871368
LMArena Korean13731344
LMArena Russian14161379
LMArena Spanish14171400

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14091374
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query14391392
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text14261397
LMArena Creative Writing14141343
LMArena Multi-Turn14251393
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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