Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Grok 4 and Qwen3.6 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (48.1 vs 47.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 45.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 28% for Grok 4 and 17% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.147.5
Released2025-07-092026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked4837

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding14081467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
WeirdML45.7%—
ALE-Bench—670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
Chess Puzzles28%17%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091449
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44147.65
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—2.9%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%93.3%
LMArena Math14221450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%8.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
Omni-MATH60.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond87%88.4%
LMArena Expert14151454
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

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

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English14031424
LMArena Chinese14271477
LMArena French14181455
LMArena German14291452
LMArena Japanese13941389
LMArena Korean13771379
LMArena Russian14101434
LMArena Spanish14201432

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13871425
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14091439
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text14111437
LMArena Creative Writing13971404
LMArena Multi-Turn14161438
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Grok 4 and Qwen3.6 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (48.1 vs 47.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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