Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen Max

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 48.4 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 16.1% for Qwen Max.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.134.7
Released2025-07-092024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—33K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.60
Output $ / M tokens—$6.40
Results tracked4823

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
Aider Polyglot79.6%21.8%
LMArena Coding14081288
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14091269
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%16.1%
LMArena Math14221275
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%1%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—67.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond87%56.1%
LMArena Expert14151248
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English14031263
LMArena Chinese14271254
LMArena French14181330
LMArena German14291254
LMArena Japanese13941205
LMArena Korean13771142
LMArena Russian14101274
LMArena Spanish14201290

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following13871262
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query14091288

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Max
LMArena Text14111282
LMArena Creative Writing13971248
LMArena Multi-Turn14161277
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen Max?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen Max better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen Max share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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