Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen1.5-110B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 35.1.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Grok 4Qwen1.5-110B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.134.2
Released2025-07-092024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4820

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14081184
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
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), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14091168
ForecastBench60.957.7
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math14221185
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert14151144
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English14031142
LMArena Chinese14271206
LMArena French14181151
LMArena German14291123
LMArena Japanese13941074
LMArena Korean13771044
LMArena Russian14101118
LMArena Spanish14201142

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following13871158
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query14091157
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14111175
LMArena Creative Writing13971148
LMArena Multi-Turn14161160
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

Related comparisons

Go deeper