Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 44.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 28% for Grok 4 and 20% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.151.5
Released2025-07-092026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked4829

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding14081471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1482
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench60.5%63%
Chess Puzzles28%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091457
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44149.24
ARC-AGI-216%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%91.1%
LMArena Math14221465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%4.2%
Omni-MATH60.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond87%87.4%
LMArena Expert14151478
SimpleQA Verified—52%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14031437
LMArena Chinese14271487
LMArena French14181449
LMArena Russian14101445
LMArena Spanish14201454
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13871438
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14091457
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text14111447
LMArena Creative Writing13971435
LMArena Multi-Turn14161456
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 48.7 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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