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Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.6

Rank #150 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 Max in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Max leads 22.0 to 13.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 73.3% for Qwen3 Max.

Side by side

Grok 3Qwen3 Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.643.5
Released2025-04-092025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked4033

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14321456
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
WeirdML37.2%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
BALROG29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%72.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14331448
Epoch Capabilities Index138.34142.41
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%73.3%
LMArena Math13901447
MATH Level 588.7%97.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
Omni-MATH46.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond75.8%72.6%
LMArena Expert14201457
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14111429
LMArena Chinese14481479
LMArena French14601450
LMArena German14311463
LMArena Japanese13891399
LMArena Korean13741397
LMArena Russian14161428
LMArena Spanish14171463

Instruction Following Too close to call

Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14091420
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query14391439
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text14261439
LMArena Creative Writing14141401
LMArena Multi-Turn14241446
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (41.5 vs 42.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3 Max share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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