Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs Qwen1.5-14B

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 33.7.
  • Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 Fast and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
Grok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.432.7
Released2025-09-192024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3017

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding14291138
LMArena WebDev1159—
WeirdML42.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Qwen1.5-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14121113
ARC-AGI-25.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.1%—
ARC-AGI-148.5%—
DTBench82.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.2—
ForecastBench60.5—

Math Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math14191125

Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert14111094
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—
MMLU—68.6%

Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English13961095
LMArena Chinese14571147
LMArena French14311116
LMArena German13831043
LMArena Japanese13521019
LMArena Russian13891046
LMArena Spanish14151085
LMArena Korean1357—

Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following13871102

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query14151113
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text14071128
LMArena Creative Writing13871091
LMArena Multi-Turn14141110

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 Fast or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 33.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Qwen1.5-14B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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