Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87% for Grok 4 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.130.8
Released2025-07-092024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4822

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14081165
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14091148
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14221164
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond87%28.8%
LMArena Expert14151136
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14031135
LMArena Chinese14271186
LMArena French14181159
LMArena German14291084
LMArena Japanese13941061
LMArena Korean13771050
LMArena Russian14101104
LMArena Spanish14201110

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13871141
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14091157
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14111166
LMArena Creative Writing13971137
LMArena Multi-Turn14161160
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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