Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 42.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 28% for Grok 4 and 10% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.142.0
Released2025-07-092026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked4828

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding14081410
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
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), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Chess Puzzles28%10%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091400
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44142.52
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—0.6%
DTBench—80%
LMCA—29.5%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%70%
LMArena Math14221404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond87%83.5%
LMArena Expert14151408
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14031378
LMArena Chinese14271457
LMArena French14181412
LMArena German14291367
LMArena Japanese13941325
LMArena Korean13771356
LMArena Russian14101376
LMArena Spanish14201392

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13871379
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14091389
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text14111395
LMArena Creative Writing13971346
LMArena Multi-Turn14161390
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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