Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 31.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 94.4% for Grok 4 and 40.6% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.138.9
Released2025-07-092025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked4832

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML45.7%29.8%
LMArena Coding14081416
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
SciCode—33.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%41.4%
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%54.9%
Chess Puzzles28%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091398
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44139.63
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—0.3%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%70.3%
LMArena Math14221394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond87%70.1%
Confabulations12.4%12.3%
LMArena Expert14151396
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14031372
LMArena Chinese14271433
LMArena French14181418
LMArena German14291380
LMArena Japanese13941337
LMArena Korean13771331
LMArena Russian14101370
LMArena Spanish14201404

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13871363
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%40.6%
LMArena Longer Query14091379

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14111384
LMArena Creative Writing13971317
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%75.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn14161378
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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