Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 Plus in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 29.3 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 93.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Grok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.947.5
Released2025-04-092026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked4037

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding14321467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
WeirdML37.2%—
ALE-Bench—670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
BALROG29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts14341449
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33147.65
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%93.3%
LMArena Math13911450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%8.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond75.8%88.4%
LMArena Expert14211454
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English14101424
LMArena Chinese14481477
LMArena French14601455
LMArena German14311452
LMArena Japanese13871389
LMArena Korean13731379
LMArena Russian14161434
LMArena Spanish14171432

Instruction Following Too close to call

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14091425
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14391439
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text14261437
LMArena Creative Writing14141404
LMArena Multi-Turn14251438
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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