Model comparison

Grok 4.1 vs Qwen3-4B

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.1 xAI

41.5

Rank #134 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 29.5 to 19.2.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.1 and Qwen3-4B specifications
Grok 4.1Qwen3-4B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.531.9
Released2025-11-172025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked196

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
LMArena WebDev1214—
LMArena Coding1445—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 leads

Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
Cybench39%—

Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads

Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1435—

Math Grok 4.1 leads

Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1422—

Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads

Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1417—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1465—
LMArena French1448—
LMArena German1446—
LMArena Japanese1397—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1434—
LMArena Spanish1438—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1400—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1416—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1437—
LMArena Creative Writing1411—
LMArena Multi-Turn1437—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.1 better than Qwen3-4B?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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