Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 38.0.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.433.4
Released2025-09-192024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked3031

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding14291276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
LMArena WebDev1159—
WeirdML42.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14121251
Epoch Capabilities Index144.2119.49
ARC-AGI-25.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.1%—
ARC-AGI-148.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
DTBench82.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
ForecastBench60.5—
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math14191251
LiveBench Math—46.6%
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert14111221
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English13961205
LMArena Chinese14571222
LMArena Russian13891228
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1383—
LMArena Japanese1352—
LMArena Korean1357—
LMArena Spanish1415—

Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13871223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14151251
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGrok 4 FastQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14071230
LMArena Creative Writing13871174
LMArena Multi-Turn14141222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 Fast or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Grok 4 Fast scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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