Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 30.8 to 13.7.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 40 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1487 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1483 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1474 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| 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), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1470 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1467 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1476 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1478 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.