Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs Qwen2.5-Max

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.5 leads 56.1 to 25.6.

Side by side

Grok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index55.040.7
Released2026-07-082025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked5227

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding14741359
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1553—
SciCode54.1%—
WeirdML46.4%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench1,309—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14621360
Epoch Capabilities Index153.92132.53
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
SimpleBench70%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles36%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
DTBench96.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA45.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math14591369
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench31%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert14661337
GPQA Diamond93.4%—
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
Confabulations—21.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1288—
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English14401352
LMArena Chinese14961382
LMArena French14561396
LMArena German14461350
LMArena Japanese14281300
LMArena Korean14041304
LMArena Russian14481353
LMArena Spanish14501377

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following14461335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%

Long Context Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query14631358

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text14481367
LMArena Creative Writing14421339
LMArena Multi-Turn14561364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4.5 or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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