Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 41.7 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

Side by side

Grok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.951.5
Released2025-04-092026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked4029

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding14321471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1482
WeirdML37.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
BALROG29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench36.1%63%
LMArena Hard Prompts14341457
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33149.24
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%91.1%
LMArena Math13911465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%4.2%
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond75.8%87.4%
LMArena Expert14211478
SimpleQA Verified—52%
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14101437
LMArena Chinese14481487
LMArena French14601449
LMArena Russian14161445
LMArena Spanish14171454
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1387—
LMArena Korean1373—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following14091438
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14391457
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text14261447
LMArena Creative Writing14141435
LMArena Multi-Turn14251456
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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