Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.3 vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.3 xAI

43.8

Rank #86 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4.3 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.3 leads 35.9 to 20.7.
  • Grok 4.3 is cheaper at $1.25 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Grok 4.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.829.9
Released2026-04-172024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output30K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$8.40
Results tracked406

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena WebDev1357—
SciCode47.3%—
WeirdML49.9%—
LMArena Coding1415—
ALE-Bench944.17—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.3 leads

Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%
GDP.pdf8%—
LMArena Search1165—
Vending-Bench 235.26—

Reasoning Grok 4.3 leads

Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
NYT Connections (extended)55.2%—
CritPt8%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1396—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA38.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.16—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)42.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 414.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.3%—
ProofBench11%—
LMArena Math1388—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond88.8%—
SimpleQA Verified33.2%—
LMArena Expert1385—

Multimodal Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision12291107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1385—
LMArena Chinese1422—
LMArena French1412—
LMArena German1395—
LMArena Japanese1379—
LMArena Korean1356—
LMArena Russian1399—
LMArena Spanish1398—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1366—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1393—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.3Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1397—
LMArena Creative Writing1380—
EQ-Bench 41075—
LMArena Multi-Turn1406—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.3 better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.3 or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Grok 4.3 is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.3 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.3 and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4.3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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