Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 Plus in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.8 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 146.78 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 2.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 84.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 10.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.