Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 42.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 60.5% for Grok 4 and 35.2% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.138.8
Released2025-07-092026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked4813

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench60.5%35.2%
Chess Puzzles28%20%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44143.26
ARC-AGI-216%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond87%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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