Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs Qwen1.5-32B

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 34.7.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 Fast and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Grok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.430.5
Released2025-09-192024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3021

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14291155
LMArena WebDev1159—
WeirdML42.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14121130
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), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math14191155

Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Expert14111126
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English13961106
LMArena Chinese14571177
LMArena French14311101
LMArena German13831058
LMArena Japanese13521027
LMArena Korean13571008
LMArena Russian13891073
LMArena Spanish14151089

Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13871116

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14151146
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14071137
LMArena Creative Writing13871083
LMArena Multi-Turn14141140

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 Fast or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 31.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Qwen1.5-32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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