Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs Qwen-VL Max

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #22 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-VL Max in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Grok 4.5 leads 37.8 to 31.6.
  • Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.5.
  • Grok 4.5 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Grok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index55.035.3
Released2026-07-082024-01-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window500K131K
Max output500K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$6$3.20
Results tracked523

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 51.7 (#34), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1552—
SciCode54.1%—
WeirdML46.4%—
LMArena Coding1473—
ALE-Bench1,309—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#15), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 56.0 (#23), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
SimpleBench70%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles36%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
DTBench96.5%—
LMCA45.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.02—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 60.7 (#29), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1457—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#21), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
GPQA Diamond93.4%—
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
LMArena Expert1466—

Multimodal Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 37.8 (#63), Qwen-VL Max: 31.6 (#97)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision12871212
Video-MME—51.3%
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 54.5 (#43), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1425—
LMArena Korean1402—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1452—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 76.3 (#45), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1446—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#54), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Longer Query1463—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 65.9 (#40), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Text1448—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1457—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than Qwen-VL Max?

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.5 or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Grok 4.5 lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.5 does, with 500K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and Qwen-VL Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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