Model comparison
Grok 4.1 vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Grok 4.1 leads 34.1 to 18.6.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-11-17 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4.1: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4.1 better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.