Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3 Coder Next

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba (Qwen)

34.3

Rank #232 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 Coder Next in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4 leads 36.7 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 45.7% for Grok 4 and 34.4% for Qwen3 Coder Next.
  • Qwen3 Coder Next has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.134.3
Released2025-07-092026-02-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.80
Results tracked483

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
WeirdML45.7%34.4%
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
SciCode—32.3%
LMArena Coding1408—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
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 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles28%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
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 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Coder Next
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3 Coder Next?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3 Coder Next share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.

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