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Grok 3 vs QwQ-32B

Grok 3 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 5 categories and QwQ-32B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 38.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 53.3% for Grok 3 and 20.9% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3QwQ-32B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.939.8
Released2025-04-092024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4036

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot53.3%20.9%
LMArena Coding14321333
WeirdML37.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14341325
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33137.6
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Too close to call

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%59.2%
LMArena Math13911359
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
MATH Level 588.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond75.8%65.3%
Confabulations14.2%15.6%
LMArena Expert14211324
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14101305
LMArena Chinese14481378
LMArena French14601336
LMArena German14311313
LMArena Japanese13871262
LMArena Korean13731279
LMArena Russian14161297
LMArena Spanish14171354

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14091297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14391308

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkGrok 3QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14261329
LMArena Creative Writing14141288
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11861257
LMArena Multi-Turn14251314
WildBench84.9%—
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than QwQ-32B?

Grok 3 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Grok 3 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and QwQ-32B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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